Medicine Manual Of Luang Pu Sukh

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Medicine for cancer — 1 Medicine for cancer of the uterus Medicine for tight, knotted abdominal tendons — 3 Medicine for back pain, lower-back pain — 4 Medicine for various kinds of aches and pains — 5 Medicine for weakness of the hands and feet Medicine for numbness/deadness of the hands and feet — 6 Medicine for pins-and-needles numbness — 7 Medicine for sprained wrist, sprained ankle Medicine for severe leg pain — 8 Medicine to draw out various poisons Medicine for all manner of poisons Medicine for nosebleed — 9 Medicine to reduce body fat Medicine for weight loss Medicine for itching of the urinary passage — 10 Medicine for women's hemorrhage — 11 Medicine for women's menstrual hemorrhage Medicine for blood rushing upward — 13 Medicine for delirium caused by a blood disorder — 15 Medicine to purge and clear bad blood — 16

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Medicine for care of pregnancy Medicine to close/heal the womb — 16 Medicine for goiter Medicine for heart disease — 17 Medicine for wasting and weakness — 18 Medicine for diverse diseases Medicine for fat blockage in the blood vessels — 20 Medicine for seizures (epilepsy) Medicine for women's seizures caused by a blood disorder — 21 Medicine for sang-convulsions Medicine for measles that has turned inward Medicine for childbirth lacking labor-bearing-down wind — 22 Medicine for a child lying transverse in the womb Medicine for a stillborn child in the womb Medicine for retained placenta — 23 Medicine to expel lochia (postpartum discharge) Medicine for blood poisoning — 24 Medicine to stop bleeding Medicine to nourish the blood — 25 Medicine for leukorrhea Medicine for wasting with absent menstruation Medicine for obstructed menstrual blood — 26 Medicine to nourish young women's menstrual blood Medicine for diaphragm disorder and prolapsed womb — 27

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Medicine for leukorrhea and for men's disease Medicine for leukemia (white blood) in the vessels — 28 Medicine for dried-up breast milk Medicine for burning sensation in the chest Medicine for "la" (a childhood folk illness, i.e. sang) Medicine for children with sang-convulsions — 29 Medicine for excessive sweating Medicine for tuberculosis Medicine for sinusitis — 30 Medicine for nosebleed that will not stop Medicine for stiff tongue and locked jaw "Divine Sleep" sedative medicine — 31 Medicine for hair loss Medicine for hernia Medicine for nerve disorders — 32 Medicine for mental illness Medicine for insanity Medicine for headache — 33 Medicine for chronic headache Medicine for women's headache after childbirth Medicine for insomnia — 34 Medicine for loss of appetite and insomnia — 35 Medicine for the common cold Medicine for infants with colds — 36

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Medicine for cough — 36 Medicine for chronic cough — 38 Medicine for coughing blood Medicine for hoarse, dry voice Medicine for bruised, swollen sore eyes — 39 Medicine for red eye — 40 Medicine for cataract — 41 Medicine for eye pain as if the eye will burst Medicine for dim/blurred vision — 43 Medicine for ear discharge — 44 Medicine for ringing ears Medicine for hearing loss Medicine for deafness — 45 Medicine for high blood pressure — 46 Medicine for low blood pressure Medicine for anemia — 48 Medicine for diabetes — 49 Medicine for asthma — [illegible page number] Medicine to expel phlegm — 61 Medicine for breathlessness — 62 Medicine for "phit samdaeng" (relapse from eating forbidden foods during recovery) — 63 Medicine for jaundice — 65 Medicine for nasal polyps — 67 Medicine for hemorrhoids — 68

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Medicine for rectal bleeding — 72 Medicine for rectal prolapse ("chak dak") Medicine for wind inside the abdomen — 73 Medicine for wind causing dizziness and blurred vision — 74 Medicine for wind causing stabbing pain and darkened vision — 73 Medicine for wind causing stabbing chest pain Medicine for wind escaping through the ear — 76 Medicine for wind mixed with nosebleed Medicine for the "kan singkhli" wind seizing the heart Medicine for the "hua luk" wind — 77 Medicine for paralytic wind (stroke) — 78 Medicine for whole-body swelling Medicine for weak reproductive organs — 79 Medicine for impotence Medicine for weak knees Medicine for men's disease — 80 Medicine for fever overlapping menstruation, and menstruation overlapping fever — 81 Medicine for fever-poison causing stiff tongue and locked jaw — 88 Medicine for tetanus fever — 89

Great formulas for treating various diseases

Medicine for paralytic wind — 89 Medicine for epilepsy (seizure disease) — 91 Medicine for various wind diseases — 92 Medicine for nerve disorders — 93

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Medicine for stomach disease Medicine for fever overlapping menstruation and vice versa — 94 Medicine for typhoid fever Medicine for care of pregnancy — 95 Medicine for gonorrhea, in both men and women Medicine for bad blood — 96 Medicine for disturbance of the four bodily elements Kaffir-lime preserve medicine — 97 Medicine for various diseases — 98

Section: remedies for urgent ailments

Medicine to quench the harm of fire and hot-water scalds Medicine to treat burns from fire and hot water — 99 Medicine for cholera Medicine for a person who has ingested poison Medicine for bites of all kinds of venomous snakes — 100 Medicine to stop bleeding — 101 Medicine for vomiting Medicine for children with sang-convulsions

Section: remedies for internal abdominal diseases

Medicine for diarrhea — 102 Medicine for stomach ache and stabbing abdominal pain Medicine for food poisoning — 103

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Medicine for dysentery Medicine for painful urination — 103 Medicine for bloody urine — 104 Medicine for frequent urination Medicine for bladder stones — 104 Medicine for kidney stones and gallstones Medicine for stones — 105 Medicine for "krasai" wasting disease, medicine for kidney disease — 106 Medicine for stomach disease — 107 Medicine for every kind of wind disease — 108 Medicine for "sannibat" wind disease Medicine to purge parasites Medicine for inner heat and thirst — 109 Medicine to prevent and treat tetanus Medicine for tetanus Medicine to treat all kinds of festering wounds — 110 Medicine to treat breast cancer Medicine to treat children's blistering sores Medicine to treat "talingphang" (collapsing/eroding sores) — 111 Medicine to treat ordinary dog-bite wounds Poultice medicine to draw flesh together Medicine to treat gnathostomiasis around the ankle — 112

Section: remedies for oral ailments

Medicine for toothache — 112

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Medicine for scurvy Medicine to prevent tooth decay — 113 Medicine for swollen, suppurating gums — 114 Medicine for sore throat

Section: remedies for skin diseases

Medicine for herpes, shingles, and "khi ma tin ma" rash — 114 Medicine for venom from animal bites and stings Medicine to treat various itchy rashes Medicine to treat scabies Medicine for jock itch — 115 Medicine for warts — 116

Section: remedies for various fevers

Medicine for fever, medicine for seasonal-wind fever — 116 Medicine for jungle/malarial fever Medicine for chronic recurring shivering fever Medicine for fever overlapping menstruation and vice versa Medicine for insomnia Medicine for high blood pressure — 117 Medicine for diabetes and high blood pressure Medicine for asthma with breathlessness — 118 Medicine for hemorrhoids Medicine for cancer — 119 Medicine for cancer of the uterus — 120

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Medicine for tight, knotted abdominal tendons Medicine for back and lower-back pain — 120 Medicine to reduce body fat Medicine for women's hemorrhage Medicine for fat blockage in the blood vessels — 121 Medicine for cattle/buffalo with foot-and-mouth disease Longevity tonic — 122 Medicine to strengthen the teeth Medicine for swollen, suppurating gums Medicine for periodontal disease Medicine for bad breath Medicine for venom from animal bites and stings Medicine for stinging, burning pain from chili in the eye — 123 Medicine for tinea versicolor Medicine for ringworm Medicine for sore throat, throat abscess Medicine for wart heads Medicine for scrofula (string-of-beads throat abscess) Medicine to draw out the poison of black-boil heads and abscess heads — 124 Poultice medicine for abscesses on the palm Medicine for vomiting Medicine for diarrhea Laxative medicine Medicine to nourish the bodily elements — 125

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Medicine for tight, knotted abdominal tendons Medicine for severe diarrhea Medicine for a child fainting with eyes rolled back Medicine for a child with blistering sores Medicine for "tan khamoi" (childhood wasting fever) — 126 Medicine for painful urination Medicine for knee pain Medicine for gnathostomiasis around the ankle Medicine for a person fainting/unconscious — 127 Medicine for stabbing pain with dimmed vision (for various winds) Medicine for "sannibat" wind disease Medicine to treat fresh wounds — 129 Medicine to treat fresh wounds and chronic wounds — 129 Medicine to stop bleeding Medicine for inflammation from a nail or thorn puncture Medicine for all kinds of festering wounds Medicine for care of pregnancy Medicine for madness caused by a blood disorder Medicine to close/heal the womb — 129 Medicine for blood rushing upward Medicine for "sannibat" fever with a burning face Medicine for women's itching of the urinary passage Medicine for external cancer — 130

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Medicine for cancer — 131 Medicine for cancer of the uterus Medicine for "krasai" wasting disease Medicine for every kind of ache and pain Medicine for hemorrhoids — 131 Medicine for rectal bleeding — 132 Medicine for typhoid fever (minor typhoid) Medicine for "northern fever" Medicine for fever — 132 Longevity tonic Medicine for the "108 diseases" (i.e. all manner of ailments) Medicine for all manner of diseases — 133 Medicine for inner heat and thirst Medicine for inflammation from a painful wood-splinter puncture Medicine for stomach disease, medicine for breathlessness — 134 Medicine for cough Medicine for chronic cough — 134 Medicine for nasal polyps Medicine for nosebleed Medicine for the common cold Medicine to expel phlegm from bronchitis Medicine for influenza — 135 Eye-drop medicine for red eye and cataract Medicine for cataract — 136

(12) Page Eye-drops for red eyes - all kinds of eye disease Medicine for paralysis (stroke) 136 Medicine for hemiplegia and paralysis Medicine for an enlarged heart Medicine for irregular heart palpitations Medicine for men's and women's ailments Medicine for stomach disease 137 Medicine for asthma Medicine for diabetes Medicine for shingles 139 Medicine for kidney stones Boiled medicine for kasai (wasting disease) and numbness Boiled medicine for wind-paralysis Special kasai medicine 139 Medicine to dissolve abscesses Medicine for hemorrhoids with wasting/emaciation Herbal pills for numbness Medicine for spirit affliction at the throat Tonic (element) medicine 140 Medicine for lameness/crippling 141 Medicine for hoarseness so severe one cannot speak Medicine for painful, obstructed urination Medicine for bleeding from the anus 141 Medicine for boils, a special medicine, and medicine for deranged mind/madness 142

Medicine Manual of Luang Pu Suk

Medicine for cancer

Formula 1: Take upper khao yen root 1 [part], lower khao yen root 1 [part], yellow sulphur 1 [part] - take 4 baht weight of each of these three ingredients equally; and old coconut shell (split into 4 parts, use 1 part) - these four ingredients together: put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid in place of tea until it becomes tasteless. It has the property of curing cancer, with truly excellent and decisive results. It has been used to cure many people already.

Formula 2: Take cobra bone 1, upper khao yen root 1, lower khao yen root 1, 'thing thon' 1, heartwood of the 'ma kluea' (ebony) tree 1, jointed fig 1 - take equal amounts of each of these six ingredients. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, before meals, three times a day. It has the property of curing every kind of cancer; it is a medicine that cuts out the root of cancer so it is fully cured. It has been used to cure many people already, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 3: Take leaves of the 'non tai yak' plant, 1 baht weight; bark of the 'kum' tree, 1 baht weight; upper khao yen root, 1 baht weight; lower khao yen root, 1 baht weight; saltpetre, 2 salueng weight; alum, 1 baht weight; sulphur, 1 baht weight - put these seven ingredients into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, in the morning, at midday, and in the evening

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three times a day, for about 30 days. It has the property of curing cancer of the bone with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 4: Take an old betel vine (the vine chewed with areca nut) 1, old betel leaves 1, betel flower 1, betel root 1 - take equal amounts of each of these four ingredients. Wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid morning and evening, twice a day. It has the property of curing cancer with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 5: Take 'lam phong ka salak' fruit (ripe fruit) 1, 'krabao' fruit (ripe fruit, use only the inner seeds) 1, 'khamin oi' (a turmeric variety) 1, bark of the 'takian' tree 1 - take equal amounts of each of these four ingredients. Dry them in the sun, grind into powder, and cook with sesame oil over a rice-husk fire (using rice husk as fuel). Apply it to treat external skin-cancer sores, or apply it to treat fungal-infected sores of any kind. It has truly decisive medicinal properties.

Formula 6: Take pandanus root 1, pineapple crown 1, star-fruit tree root 1, upper khao yen root 1, lower khao yen root 1, unhusked jasmine rice 1 - take equal amounts of each of these six ingredients. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing the kind of cancer in which the patient has bloating and cannot eat, having suffered this for a long time. Once this medicine is taken, it will cure that illness. It has been used to treat [patients] with good results many times.

Formula 7: Take both khao yen roots (that is, upper khao yen root 1 and lower khao yen root 1), albino water-buffalo bone 1, yellow sulphur 1, 'khan thong phayabat' 1, 'non tai yak' plant tuber 1 - take 20 baht weight of each of these six ingredients equally; pineapple rhizome, 10 baht weight; horse bone

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4 baht weight; one bird's-eye chili plant (use the whole plant down to the root); skin of 'ruak' bamboo (scrape off only the skin) 3 handfuls - put these ten ingredients into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, three times a day at mealtimes. It has the property of curing cancer, curing sores that have degenerated, curing every kind of abscess, curing coughs, curing bleeding from the windpipe, and treating sores in the windpipe and sores in the intestines. It gives truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for cancer of the womb

Take upper khao yen root 1, lower khao yen root 1, 'non tai yak' plant 1, 'nom maeo' root 1, canna-lily tuber (white) 1 - take 4 baht weight of each of these five ingredients equally; sea salt (cooking salt) 1 handful. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing cancer of the womb, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for tightness of the abdominal sinews that has become a hardened, vine-like mass

Formula 1: Take one lemongrass plant, long pepper (dee plee) 12 flowers, young peppercorns 60 grains - pound these three ingredients into a powder, mix with honey, and take three times a day. It has the property of curing tightness of the abdominal sinews that has become a hardened mass, and inability to eat; it expels wind from the abdomen, and also nourishes the reproductive organs so they have good strength and capability.

Formula 2: Take black glutinous rice (raw) and roasted/sifted pepper - take one handful of each of these two ingredients, pound finely, mix with pure honey, and take it only on Saturdays, before bed. It has the property of curing tightness of the abdominal sinews, contracted sinews, and pain, curing them with truly decisive results.

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Medicine for back and lower-back pain

Formula 1: Take pennywort (bua bok) and licorice root (cha-em) - take a suitable amount of each of these two ingredients. Pound finely, mix with pure honey, and take one teacup at a time, morning and evening, twice a day. It has the property of curing back and lower-back pain, making it vanish completely.

Formula 2: Take mistletoe growing on the 'cham churi' (rain tree) 1, dried leaves of the 'cham churi' tree 1 - roast these two ingredients over a fire until well dried, then put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing back and lower-back pain, with truly excellent and decisive results. It has been used to treat [patients] with good results before.

Formula 3: Take the whole 'ya luk tai bai' plant (pull up the whole plant down to the root), in whatever quantity is needed. Wash it clean, chop into small pieces, dry in the sun, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid in place of tea. It has the property of curing back and lower-back pain and kidney disease, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 4: Take ripe bitter-eggplant fruit (the yellow-colored kind), in a number equal to the age of the person who needs this medicine. Cut each in half, scrape out only the green mucilage inside, and dry it in the sun. Take 1 chicken egg, pierce the shell to make a hole, pour out the egg white, keeping only the yolk. Then grind the dried bitter-eggplant mucilage and put all of it into the egg, stirring together with a stick. Take that egg [shell] and burn it in a fire until it becomes charcoal, grind it fine, and pour it into a bottle of white liquor (rot-gut liquor), leaving it to steep for 1 night. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, morning and evening, twice a day, every day continuously for about 1 month. The back pain will go away. It has been used to cure many people already

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It has extremely decisive medicinal properties. People under 20 years of age are strictly forbidden to take this medicine. For those who dislike alcohol: take the burnt eggshell charcoal, grind it fine, mix with pure honey, and roll it into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take 1 pill at a time, morning and evening, twice a day, every day - this gives equally good results.

Formula 5: Take the whole 'ka meng' plant (pull up the whole plant down to the root), a suitably large quantity. Wash it clean, pound it fine, and squeeze out half a coffee-cup of its juice; mix with half a coffee-cup of pure honey, stir well together, and drink the whole cupful before bed on the night of the dark moon (that is, the last day of the lunar month, namely waning-moon day 14-15). Take it only this one time. It has the property of fully curing back and lower-back pain, with truly excellent and decisive results. [The author] has used it to cure himself completely before.

Medicine for various kinds of aches and soreness

Formula 1: Take 'khoi' tree fruit 1 thanan, nut-grass tuber 1 thanan, 'hang lai' tuber 20 baht weight, 'krung khema' 20 baht weight - dry these four ingredients in the sun, pound into powder, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take 2-3 pills at a time, before bed. When this medicine has given good results, one must pour libation water to dedicate the merit to the owner of this formula as well. It has the property of curing aches and soreness with truly decisive results.

Formula 2: Take the 'ka meng' plant (pull up the whole plant down to the root), a suitably large quantity. Wash it clean, chop into small pieces, dry in the sun, grind into powder, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take 1 pill at a time, after meals, three times a day

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for just 15 days, and every kind of ache and soreness will vanish at once. It has truly decisive medicinal properties. While mixing this medicine, one should recite the incantation of the Five Buddhas (that is, 'Namo Buddhaya').

Formula 3: Take 5 coffee-spoons of pure honey with 1 coffee-spoon of lime juice - mix these two ingredients together, fill the glass with plain soda water (chilled), and stir well together. Drink it while it is still fizzy - 1 glass on waking in the morning and 1 glass before bed, 2 glasses a day, for just 2-3 days only. It has the property of curing back pain, pain in the lower back/tailbone, fatigue, aches and soreness, lack of strength, and [the effects of] staying up late at night; it is an especially wonderful tonic. It has been used to treat [patients] with good results before.

Medicine for weakness of the hands and feet

Take the 'bo raphet phung chang' vine (a large-fruited variety of bo raphet). Wash it clean, cut into small pieces, dry in the sun until just slightly damp, then soak it in raw brown sugar, or soak it in liquor. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing weakness of the hands and feet, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for deadness/numbness of the hands and feet

Formula 1: Take red 'ngueak pla mo' plant, 1 tamlueng weight; moringa bark, 1 tamlueng weight; raw areca nut (the kind eaten with betel) 2 halves; 3 cowrie shells - put these four ingredients into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmering down until 1 part of water remains. Drink the liquid, or alternatively grind into powder and dissolve in hot water to drink. It has the property of curing deadness/numbness of the hands and feet, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 2: Take leaves of the wood-apple (ma khwit) tree 1, 'phak sian phi' plant 1, sweet flag (wan nam) 1, pennywort (bua bok) leaves 1 - take equal amounts of each of these four ingredients. Dry them

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in the sun until dry, grind into powder, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take 1 pill at a time, in the morning, at midday, and before bed, three times a day, for about 10 days. It has the property of curing wind-ailment that causes deadness of the hands and feet, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for beriberi (numbness/cramping of the legs)

Formula 1: Take wild-ginger (phlai) tuber, camphor, aloe resin, sea salt (cooking salt), fingerroot (krachai) tuber - take 1 baht weight of each of these five ingredients equally. Pound finely, roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take three times a day. It has the property of curing beriberi and kasai (wasting) disease, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 2: Take 'som poi' leaves 1, saltpetre 1, aloe resin 1, Epsom salt (a purgative mineral salt) 1, 'ma ka' leaves 1, tamarind leaves 1, sulphur 1, alum 1, camphor 1, red turmeric 1 - take 3 baht weight of each of these ten ingredients equally; kaffir lime fruit, 13 pieces (cut into 4 parts, use 3 parts). Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, before meals, three times a day. It has the property of curing beriberi, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 3: Take long pepper (dee plee) 1, saltpetre 1, aloe resin 1, 'rak tong taek' root 1, 'som poi' leaves 1, sulphur 1, fingerroot tuber 1 - take 3 baht weight of each of these seven ingredients equally; kaffir lime fruit, 13 pieces (cut into 4, use 3). Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, before meals, three times a day. It has the property of curing beriberi, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 4: Take root of the common house bamboo 1, lemongrass rhizome 1, fingerroot tuber 1, roasted/sifted pepper 1 - take 1 baht weight of each of these four ingredients

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equally. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, before meals - morning, midday, evening - three times a day. It has the property of curing beriberi, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 5: Take pork leg (the ankle-joint section) with sweet-tamarind branches (cut into small pieces) - take a suitable amount of each of these two ingredients. Put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmering down until 1 part of water remains. Have the patient eat both the pork meat and the liquid, 3 times a day, continuously for about 15 days; the beriberi will go away. It has truly decisive medicinal properties.

Formula 6: Take long pepper, 6 baht weight; aloe resin, 2 baht weight; roasted/sifted pepper, 2 baht weight; cloves, 4 tamlueng weight; asafoetida, 2 baht weight; cardamom, 5 tamlueng weight; ginger, 2 baht weight - dry these seven ingredients in the sun and pound into powder, mix with either pure honey or ginger juice, and roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take as needed. It has the property of curing beriberi, curing every kind of wind-ailment, curing stomach ache, bloating, fainting spells with dizziness and blurred vision, inability to eat, and loss of appetite. It may be used by both women and men (pregnant women are forbidden to take it). It gives truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for sprains and stiffness of the wrist and ankle joints

Take camphor, 5 baht weight, with 1 bottle of white rice liquor - steep the camphor in the liquor. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, every day. It has the property of curing sprains and pain in the wrist and ankle joints, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for severe leg pain

Take 'katokrok' vine, 1 baht weight; elephant-trunk grass 1, 'khon tha' root 1, dried ginger 1, galangal tuber 1, elephant-tail grass 1 - take 10 baht weight of each of these six ingredients equally. Put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water

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simmering down until 1 part of water remains. Drink the liquid, one coffee-cup at a time, in the morning, at midday, and in the evening, three times a day. It has the property of curing severe leg pain, making it disappear, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine to draw out various poisons

Take 1 lump of alum (the size of the tip of the little finger), pound it finely and mix with cooled boiled water, and drink it. It has the property of causing vomiting to expel various poisons, such as mushroom poisoning, acid or alkali poisoning, and other toxins, clearing them out with truly decisive results.

Medicine for all kinds of poison

Take nutmeg fruit 1, asafoetida 1, camphor 1, aloe resin 1, roasted/sifted pepper 1 - take 4 baht weight, or 8 baht weight, of each of these five ingredients equally. Pound into powder and mix with kaffir lime juice, and form into pellets the size of 'khat khao' seeds. Take 3-4 pellets at a time. It has the property of curing absence of menstruation in women, curing colicky stomach pain - taken with hot water; curing spirit affliction in the stomach or in the throat; curing the effects of poison [ingested as bait]; curing all kinds of poison - taken with liquor; curing hemorrhoids - taken with kaffir lime juice, both taken internally and applied externally. It gives truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for nosebleed

Take guava tree roots, a suitably large quantity. Wash them clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid. It has the property of curing nosebleed (bleeding from the nose), with truly excellent and decisive results. It has been used to treat [patients] with good results before.

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Medicine to reduce fat in the body

Formula 1: Take the whole nut-grass plant (pull up the whole plant down to the root), in whatever quantity is needed. Wash it clean, cut into small pieces, dry in the sun, then roast over a fire until golden. Steep it in hot water and drink in place of tea. It has the property of helping to reduce fat in the body, with truly excellent and decisive results. It has been used to treat [patients] with good results before.

Formula 2: Take 15 raw, unroasted coffee beans and soak them in water in the refrigerator overnight. The next morning, take the coffee beans and boil them with about 3-4 curry-bowls of water, simmering for a long time. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time, in the morning, at midday, and in the evening, three times a day, continuously for 7 days. It has the property of helping to reduce fat in the body, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Medicine for weight loss

Take the 'bo raphet' vine, a suitably large quantity. Wash it clean, cut into small pieces, dry in the sun, grind finely, and mix with pure honey. Roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take 3 pills at a time, before breakfast, every day continuously for about 1 month. Body weight will gradually decrease in due course, without harming one's health and without tormenting the body. It has truly decisive medicinal properties.

Medicine for itching of the urethra

Take 'ma pho' leaves, a suitably large quantity. Wash them clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid. It has the property of curing itching of the urethra in women, with truly excellent and decisive results.

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Medicine for hemorrhaging in women

Formula 1: Take 1 fibrous husk-top of a ripe dried coconut. Put it into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmering down until 1 part of water remains. Drink the liquid. It has the property of stopping non-stop hemorrhaging in a woman due to childbirth, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 2: Take 'kon chai' leaves, in whatever quantity is needed. Pound them finely, mix with liquor, and squeeze out only the liquid. Drink it. It has the property of curing hemorrhaging in a woman due to childbirth, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 3: Take 1 soup-spoon of turmeric powder, mix with 1 teacup of cooled boiled water, stir together, and drink it just this once. It has the property of stopping a woman's hemorrhaging due to childbirth immediately, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 4: Take water mimosa (phak kachet), a suitably large quantity. Wash it clean, pound it finely, and mix with amniotic fluid (obtained at the house [where the birth took place]); squeeze out only the liquid, and drink about 1 teacup of it. It has the property of curing a woman's non-stop hemorrhaging due to childbirth, with truly decisive results.

Formula 5: Take 2-3 pieces of teak wood, [and] the pith of the 'phik' plant (use only the pith, not the wood), 1 onion top/bulb - put these three ingredients into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid, one teacup at a time. It has the property of stopping a woman's hemorrhaging due to childbirth immediately, with truly excellent and decisive results.

Formula 6: Take the blood of the woman who has just given birth, mix it with liquor (a suitable amount of each), stir together, about half

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Have the female patient drink this in a coffee cup (in the manner of "drawing out a thorn with a thorn"). It has the property of curing a woman's postpartum hemorrhage after childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 7: Take 1 bitter gourd, roast it over the fire, and grind it fine. Mix with liquor. Drink one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing a woman's postpartum hemorrhage after childbirth, making it stop; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 8: Take 1 handful of raw mung beans, pound them fine, wrap in thin white cloth, and use as a poultice on the big toe (right or left, either is fine). Drip very cold water — chilled in a refrigerator, or ice — onto the poultice. A cold, tingling sensation will rise up through the foot, and the bleeding will stop within 10 minutes. It has the property of curing bleeding of every kind, especially a woman's postpartum hemorrhage after childbirth; it has previously been used to treat this with excellent, most effective results.

Formula 9: Take 1 handful of ebony-tree leaves, pound until crushed, and squeeze out half a coffee-glass of juice, mixed with half a coffee-glass of liquor. Stir together and drink the whole glass in a single dose. It has the property of curing a woman's postpartum hemorrhage after childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 10: Take pine heartwood (as printed: แก่นสนบ่า), chop it into small pieces — 1 curry-bowl's worth — put it in a clay pot and boil with 4 glasses of water, simmering down to 1 glass. Drink the whole glass. Then add another 4 glasses of water, simmer down to 1 glass again, and drink again, repeating 2-3 times. It has the property of curing a woman's postpartum hemorrhage after childbirth, with excellent, most effective results; it has previously cured about 100 cases.

Formula 11: Take turmeric-cane 1, ส้มป่อย root 1, galangal root 1, sweet flag 6, roasted white pepper 1 — these 5 kinds of medicine, take equal amounts of each...

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Grind fine, dissolve in lime juice, one coffee-spoon at a time, and drink. It has the property of curing severe postpartum hemorrhage after childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 12: Take fresh ginger 1, Thai licorice 1, foreign licorice 1 — take equal amounts of these three, grind fine, mix with about 1 teacup of liquor, and drink. It has the property of curing bleeding from the rectum or urinary tract in a pregnant woman; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 13: Take periwinkle plant together with good-quality shrimp paste (the kind used for chili paste) — a suitable amount of each of these two, pounded together, then press out only the liquid and mix with liquor. Drink one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing a woman's hemorrhage; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 14: Take 7 nodes of yellow bamboo, together with 3 pinches of incense-ash (from worshipping the Buddha) — put these two into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing a woman's hemorrhage; excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for a woman's menstrual hemorrhage

Take 1 dried eel head, roast it over the fire until burnt, grind fine, mix with vinegar and a little liquor stirred in, about 1 teacup of liquid. Drink it in a single dose only. It has the property of curing a woman's menstrual hemorrhage, stopping it at once; it has previously cured many cases, with excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for the disorder of blood surging upward

Formula 1: Take 1 handful of indigo plant, together with 3 very rusty nails. Put them into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid...

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Drink one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing the disorder of blood surging upward, with symptoms of convulsions and fainting/going rigid; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 2: Take a suitably large amount of fresh หมากเม่า (Antidesma) bark, pound it fine, mix with liquor, and squeeze out only the liquid. Drink one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing the disorder of blood surging upward, with convulsions and fainting/going rigid; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 3: Take 1 fresh chicken egg, white sugar 1, roasted white pepper 1 — take a suitable amount of each of these three, mix with liquor, stir well, and drink. It has the property of curing the disorder of blood surging upward, with convulsions and fainting/going rigid; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 4: Take 1 stingray skin (roasted over fire), garlic 1, roasted white pepper 1, ginger 1, alum 1, croton seed 1 — take equal amounts of these six, grind fine. Use 1 coffee-spoon mixed with liquor, about 1 teacup of liquid, and drink. It has the property of curing the disorder of blood surging upward after childbirth, with convulsions and fainting/going rigid; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 5: Take roasted white pepper 1, ginger 1, long pepper 1 — take these three in equal weights of 1 baht each; มะคำไก่ leaf, weighing 3 baht. Grind these four fine and dissolve in liquor. Drink 1 coffee-spoon at a time, about 1 teacup of liquid. It has the property of curing the disorder of blood surging upward, with convulsions and fainting/going rigid, after childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 6: Take red ผักแพว root 1, ถั่วผี seed 1, red หางไหล (derris) 1, ลำโพงกาสลัก root 1, ขี้หนูพุก 1 — take equal amounts of these five, grind fine, form into a rod, and dry in the sun until...

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...dry it and keep it. Use it as a medicine ground on a whetstone with liquor, and pour it into the mouth of a patient who has fainted due to "blood acting up"; it will revive them at once. It has the property of curing the condition of a woman who, after giving birth, has blood surge upward causing fainting or rigidity, a cold clammy body, and convulsions with rolled-back eyes; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 7: Take red หางไหล (derris) together with ลำโพงกาสลัก root, grind on a whetstone with liquor, rub on the jaw, then pry the mouth open and pour this medicine in. It has the property of curing a woman fainting from childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for delirium/madness caused by "blood acting up"

Formula 1: Take 3 แมลงบั่งช้าง insects, roast over fire, grind fine, mix with 1 tablespoon of honey, mix well together, then place it in a red-ant nest for 7 days. Remove it, mix with liquor, and drink. It has the property of curing a woman who has become deranged due to "blood acting up" after childbirth, or due to irregular menstruation; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 2: Take a suitably large amount of sugar-palm seed floss, put it in a vessel over the fire and roast until crisp and burnt, grind fine, mix with liquor, about 1 teacup of liquid, and drink. It has the property of curing "blood acting up" due to childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 3: Take stingray skin, roast over fire, grind fine, mix with liquor. Drink one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fainting and rigidity due to "blood acting up" after childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 4: Take 1 handful of หญ้าไทร, 7 slices of fresh ginger, 1 roasted white peppercorn, 2 cloves of garlic — grind these four fine, press out only the liquid, and drink. It has the property of curing "blood acting up" after childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

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Medicine for purging spoiled blood

Take เถาวัลย์เปรียง vine 1, แก่นสั้นทม heartwood 1, มะกา leaf 1, galangal 1, northern "cool-rice" root 1, southern "cool-rice" root 1 — take equal amounts of these six, put them in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid morning and evening. It has the property of purging away spoiled blood; excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for the care of pregnancy

Take northern "cool-rice" root 1, southern "cool-rice" root 1, the five kinds of flower pollen (namely พิกุล flower 1, บุนนาค flower 1, jasmine flower 1, สารภี flower 1, lotus stamens 1), เนระพูสี root 1 — take these ingredients in equal weights of 1 baht each, put them in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid one teacup at a time. It has the property of nourishing the health of the mother and the child in the womb, and makes childbirth easy; it has previously been used with excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for healing the womb

Take the whole เอื้องนา plant in five parts (taking the whole plant down to the root) — the เอื้องนา plant has thick, short leaves resembling an orchid, with large red flowers, growing to about 3-4 feet tall — together with the whole แพงพวย (periwinkle) plant in five parts (taking the whole plant down to the root). Take equal amounts of these two ingredients, wash clean, put in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid one teacup at a time, every day, from after childbirth until after the postpartum "fire" period is finished. It has the property of healing the womb, mending the wounds of the birth canal so it returns to its original condition; excellent, most effective results.

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Medicine for goiter

Take 1 dead toad (dried in the sun) together with 1 small bowl of roasted white pepper. Grind fine, wrap in thin white cloth. Put sesame oil in a brass wok, heat until boiling, then dip the wrapped medicine into the frying sesame oil (while just warm). Use as a compress on the goiter, applying it repeatedly. In a short time the goiter condition will gradually go away. It has a most effective property.

Medicine for heart disease

Formula 1: Take both kinds of "cool-rice" root (northern 1, southern 1), yellow sulfur 1, กำแพงเจ็ดชั้น 1, ทองพันชั่ง 1, foreign licorice 1 — take these six in equal weights of 10 baht each, put in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid one teacup at a time, after meals, three times a day. It has the property of curing an enlarged heart, with symptoms of irregular heartbeat, weakness, and shortness of breath, making them go away; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 2: Take the ไมยราบ (mimosa/sensitive plant) (the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, chop into small pieces, dry in the sun, then roast over the fire until golden. Steep in hot water and drink in place of tea. It has the property of curing heart palpitations or an abnormally strong heartbeat; excellent, most effective results — it has previously been used with good results.

Formula 3: Take a suitably large amount of the whole บัวบก (gotu kola) plant and leaves, wash clean, pound until crushed, and squeeze out the juice mixed with brown or white sugar, just enough for slight sweetness. Drink one dose...

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...one glass, three times a day, continuously for about 7-10 days. It has the property of curing heart disease with symptoms of pain in the left side of the chest, difficulty breathing, easy fatigue, weakness, and constant sweating; excellent, most effective results — it has previously cured the compiler himself completely.

Formula 4: Take a fresh white radish, wash clean, peel it, and dip in pure honey. Eat 1 radish at a time, morning and evening, every day, for about 15 days. It has the property of curing heart disease; excellent, most effective results. When the illness is cured, offer alms food to 5 monks and dedicate the merit to the owner of this formula.

Formula 5: Take 1 young coconut, peel and cut off the top. Take fresh celery, cut into pieces, about a handful, and put into the young coconut. Roast it over the fire until it boils, about 5-10 minutes. Drink the coconut water together with the celery, all of it. Prepare and take this medicine once a day, continuously for 7 days, then take it every other day, continuing for about another 1-2 months. It has the property of curing heart disease with symptoms of difficulty breathing, pain in the left side of the chest, weakness, and lack of strength, curing it completely; excellent, most effective results — it has previously been used with good results.

Formula 6: Take 1 pig's heart, wash clean (outside only), hang it to dry in the breeze. Use a knife to slit the pig's heart to a depth of about half its thickness. Take "chusa" (a red powder available at Chinese medicine shops), weighing 1 salueng (costing about 60 baht), and put it into the pig's heart. Sew it closed neatly with thread as before. Place in a vessel and steam until cooked (without putting any water in the vessel with the pig's heart) — liquid will flow out from within the heart. Then cut the thread that sewed the heart closed, and squeeze out the "chusa"...

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...comes out, and mix it with the liquid from the pig's heart. Drink it all. Eat the flesh of the pig's heart afterward as ordinary food. Prepare and take this medicine once a day, continuously for 3 days, then take it every other day, continuing for no more than about 1 month. It has the property of curing heart disease with symptoms of irregular heartbeat, easy fatigue, weakness, lack of strength, and swelling throughout the whole body, curing it completely, with most effective results — it has previously been used with good results. If the heart disease has persisted long and the symptoms are very severe, use "chusa" powder weighing 2 salueng.

Formula 7: Take 1 salueng of solid cinnabar, 1 salueng of red-lead cinnabar, and 2 sheets of 100% pure gold leaf. Grind these three fine in a medicine mortar. Take 2 fresh pig's hearts, wash clean, and rub the ground medicine into both hearts. Place in a pot and steam until cooked. Cut one heart into 4 portions, and the other heart into 4 portions. Eat 1 portion at a time, before breakfast; warm the medicine to boiling before eating, every day, continuously for 8 days. It has the property of curing heart disease with symptoms of being easily startled, difficulty breathing, a stinging pain in the left side of the chest, weakness, and lack of strength; excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for the condition of being emaciated and weak

Formula 1: Take roasted rice grains 1, sea salt (the kind used for cooking) 1, roasted white pepper 1 — take equal amounts of these three, pound fine, mix with pure honey, and form into pellets the size of a jujube seed. Take 1 pellet at a time, three times a day, before breakfast, before the evening meal, and before bed. It has the property of curing the condition of being emaciated and weak, giving good health within no more than 3 months.

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Formula 2: Take nut-grass tuber 1, roasted white pepper 1, เหงือกปลาหมอ plant 1 — take equal amounts of these three, dry in the sun, grind fine, mix with pure honey, and form into pellets the size of a jujube seed. Take 1 pellet at a time, before breakfast, before the evening meal, and before bed. It has the property of curing the condition of being emaciated and weak; excellent, most effective results — it has previously been used with very good results many times.

Medicine for various kinds of illness

Take 1 piece of deer antler, put it into an Ovaltine tin (with 1 hole bored in it), close the lid and smother it in rice-husk fire until the antler has turned black like charcoal. Use it as a medicine to treat many kinds of illness: cures tetanus, cures the poison of animal bites and stings, cures snakebite poison — grind the antler on a whetstone with liquor and apply the liquid to the wound; the illness will be cured. Used to draw out fever-poison in both children and adults, curing fever combined with menstruation and menstruation combined with fever — grind the antler with rice-rinsing water and drink the liquid; the illness will be cured. Cures herpes, shingles, ringworm ("dog's-paw"), and spreading fire-rash — grind the antler with water mixed with white chalk powder and apply to the affected area; the illness will be cured. Cures burns from fire, scalding water, or hot oil — grind the antler with liquor and apply to the affected area; it will be cured. Cures toothache and earache — grind the antler with rainwater mixed with camphor (พิมเสน) and apply to the aching tooth, or drop into the ear; the illness will be cured. Used to treat sore eyes in animals of every kind — grind the antler with liquor and apply the liquid; the illness will be cured. Cures external cancer — grind the antler with liquor and apply to the affected area; the illness will be cured.

Medicine for fat blockage in the blood vessels

Take single-clove garlic bulbs (garlic with only one clove specifically, not...

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...multiple cloves) — 21 bulbs. Peel them, then put them in a jar or covered pot, and add pure honey to cover the garlic completely. Seal the jar or pot tightly and let it steep for 7 days. Eat it before bed, 3 bulbs at a time along with the liquid, for 7 days continuously. It has the property of curing fat blockage in the blood vessels; excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for the disorder of convulsions (epilepsy)

Take the whole ครอบจักรวาล plant (or "ต้นพื้นสี") in five parts (pulling up the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, put in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Add brown sugar, mixed in just enough for slight sweetness. Drink the liquid in place of a beverage, regularly every day. If the convulsion disorder has not persisted long, it will be completely cured quickly. If it has persisted more than 5 years, this medicine must be boiled and taken every day, continuously for about 1 year, and only then will the convulsions be completely cured. It has a most effective property; it has previously been used with good results.

Method for preventing convulsions Regularly keep the bowels moving, taking care not to let constipation occur; regularly take a purgative at least once a month. This is guaranteed to prevent convulsions from occurring; it has previously been used with good results.

Method for stopping a convulsion Use the hand to pinch the patient's inner thigh, causing very severe pain. The patient will regain consciousness within 5 minutes. This has previously been used to stop convulsions with good results.

Medicine for a woman's convulsions caused by "blood acting up"

Take 1 wild boar's gallbladder, wash clean, put 1 roasted white peppercorn inside it, roast over the fire until charred, and grind fine...

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...dissolve it in white liquor, about 1 teacup of liquid. Drink it about 3 times. It has the property of curing convulsions, or madness, in a woman who, after giving birth, has had "blood acting up"; excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for infantile convulsion-fever (ซางชัก)

Take sweet flag 1, ว่านหางช้าง 1, turmeric-cane 3 slices, a suitable amount of asafoetida — take a suitable amount of each of these four, pound until crushed, mix with cold water, and stir together. Use it to anoint the whole body of a child suffering from ซางชัก, and also drip some of the liquid into the child's mouth to drink. The child's convulsions will stop within a short time. It has a most effective property; it has previously cured many cases.

Medicine for measles that has retreated inward

Formula 1: Take rice husk together with glutinous-rice husk — take equal amounts of these two, wrap together in thin white cloth, put in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid one teacup at a time. It has the property of curing measles that has retreated inward into the belly, curing measles poison, and curing "ผิดสำแดง" (dietary-taboo reaction); excellent, most effective results.

Formula 2: Take 1 handful of ต่อไส้ plant, 5 slices of turmeric-cane — put these two into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of clear lime water (the red lime-water eaten with betel), and drink the liquid one teacup at a time, morning and evening. It has the property of curing measles that has retreated inward; excellent, most effective results — it has previously been used to save the lives of many children with this condition.

Medicine for childbirth with no bearing-down contractions

Formula 1: Take 5 pieces of screwpine root together with a suitable amount of หญ้าไทร — put these two into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Use...

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...the liquid, one teacup at a time. It has the property of giving a woman bearing-down contractions during childbirth; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 2: Take citron peel 1, pine heartwood 1, camphor (การบูร) 1, camphor (พิมเสน) 1 — take equal amounts of these four, put in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid one teacup at a time. Excellent, most effective results.

Medicine for a transverse/obstructed birth position

Take กรุงเขมา 1, ผักเสี้ยนผี 1, เสนียด root 1, red พันงู root 1 — take equal amounts of these four, pound fine, and apply the liquid to the belly and pubic area. It has the property of helping childbirth to be easy. After the child is born, quickly wash the medicine off at once. It has a most effective property.

Medicine for a stillborn child in the womb

Take gloriosa-lily tuber 1, ashes of burnt citron fruit 1 — take equal amounts of these two, grind fine, and apply as a poultice below the navel. Once the child has been delivered, quickly wash the medicine off without delay. It has a most effective property.

Medicine for a retained placenta

Formula 1: Take asafoetida 1, camphor (การบูร) 1, roasted white pepper 1, ยาดำ (aloe resin) 1 — take these four in equal weights of 1 baht each; nutmeg 1, mace 1 — take these two in equal weights of 2 salueng each. Grind all six ingredients fine and dissolve in liquor. Drink one teacup at a time. It has the property of helping a placenta retained in the womb come loose and come out; excellent, most effective results.

Formula 2: Take ashes of burnt citron fruit 1, turmeric-cane 1, leaf of...

...calabash gourd 1, base of the banana-tree trunk 1 — take these 4 medicines in equal parts, pound fine, and use as a poultice on the lower abdomen when the child has been born but the placenta has not come out. Once the placenta comes out, one must quickly wash the poultice off completely. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Formula 3: Take papaya root, grind it with clear limewater (limewater eaten with betel), and apply to the inner thigh. Once the placenta comes out, immediately wash the medicine off. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Formula 4: Take crocodile's-foot herb ("tin cho-rakhe"), grind it on the lid of a clay pot using liquor as the solvent, about 1 teacup of liquid. Give it to the woman who has just given birth to drink just once. Its property helps the placenta come out; the result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine to Expel the Lochia

Take sappanwood 1, kae-lae 1, the five parts of the cassia tree (that is: root 1, heartwood 1, bark 1, leaf 1, flower 1), aloes (yaa dam) 1 — 8 medicines in all, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each. Put them in a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, 3 times a day, for 3-4 days after childbirth. Its property helps expel the lochia, cures inability to endure the post-partum fire-lying, cures blood and lochia smeared on the fire-platform, and cures various states of delirium while lying on the fire-platform. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Blood Turned to Poison

Take a handful of young tamarind leaves, pound fine, squeeze out only the liquid, mix with water from boiled sappanwood heartwood, and pour the liquid into the patient's mouth. Once the patient regains consciousness, have them drink about another half-glass of the medicine, watching over them as they do. Its property cures poisoned blood and calms it. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine to Stop Bleeding

Formula 1: Take fresh saap-suea leaves (or "crouching-tiger leaf"), pound or crush them fine, and use as a poultice on a bleeding wound. Its property is to stop bleeding, halting the flow of blood at once. It has been used to treat the author himself with good results.

Formula 2: Take alum, dissolve in water, and apply to the wound. Its property helps stop bleeding. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 3: Take alum, grind fine, mix with lip-rouge wax, and apply to the wound. Its property helps stop bleeding. The result is exceptionally effective.

Formula 4: Take turmeric powder, mix with water, and apply to the wound. Its property helps stop bleeding. The result is exceptionally effective.

Medicine to Nourish the Blood

Formula 1: Take 12 makaa leaves, 108 lime leaves, 3 kaffir-lime fruits (cut into 4, use 3). Put these 3 medicines in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, before meals, 3 times a day. Its property nourishes a woman's menstrual blood. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 2: Take [illegible] heartwood 1, bamboo (mai-ruak) root 1 — these 2 medicines in equal parts — plus alum weighing 6 salueng — 3 medicines in all. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, before meals, 3 times a day. Its property nourishes the blood, strengthens the body, and purifies the blood. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Leukorrhea (White Vaginal Discharge)

Formula 1: Take a handful of alum, put it in a clay pot, boil with 3 curry-bowls of water until it boils, then let it cool. Use to wash the vaginal opening once a day. Its property cures leukorrhea. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 2: Take the whole phak-siian-phee plant, all 5 parts (the whole plant down to the root), 1 handful, leaves of the khon-thi-so tree, 1 handful, unripe bael fruit weighing 2 baht. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water, and drink the liquid. Its property cures leukorrhea. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Wasting/Emaciation with Absent Menstruation

Take makaa leaf 1, chum-het leaf 1, khilek heartwood 1, saem-san heartwood 1, saem-thale heartwood 1, phlai 1, khamin-oi (turmeric cane) 1 — 7 medicines, taken in equal weight of 5 tamlueng each, plus camphor weighing 1 baht, aloes (yaa dam) weighing 1 baht, sea salt (salt used for curry) 3 pinches — 10 medicines in all. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, before the morning and evening meals, twice a day. Its property cures menstruation that does not come on schedule, corrects disordered menstrual blood, cures leukorrheal discharge, nourishes the menstrual blood, and stimulates the appetite. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Obstructed Menstrual Blood

Formula 1: Take dried rice roasted until golden, weighing 4 baht, sifted white pepper weighing 2 baht, long pepper weighing 1 baht. Grind these 3 medicines into a powder, dissolve with either bitter-orange juice, vinegar, or liquor, about 1 teacup of liquid, and drink it. Its property cures painful obstructed menstruation...

...the abdomen during menstruation, purifies the menstrual blood, and makes menstrual blood come out normally. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 2: Take tamarind leaf 1, som-poi leaf 1, makaa leaf 1, sappanwood 1, khilek heartwood 1, thao-wan-priang vine 1, terminalia (samo-thai) fruit 1 — 7 medicines in equal parts. Put in a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, simmer down until 1 part water remains. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time (mixing in Epsom/Glauber's salt, more or less, according to the strength of one's constitution), before the morning and evening meals. Its property makes menstrual blood come out normally, nourishes the menstrual blood, expels the lochia, and expels bad blood while lying at the post-partum fire. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine to Nourish the Menstrual Blood of Young Women

Take sappanwood 1, saem-san 1, saem-thale 1, kae-lae 1, ya-sai grass 1, makaa leaf 1, star-gooseberry leaf 1, bai-mai-ba leaf 1, ya-han-kat grass 1, nut-grass tuber 1 — 10 medicines in equal parts. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, before meals, 3 times a day. Its property cures dried-up/absent menstrual blood, makes the menstrual blood healthy, and nourishes it — suitable for young women whose menstruation has just begun. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for a Displaced Diaphragm and Prolapsed Womb

Take root of the male mayom tree 1, root of the sweet-tamarind tree 1, root of the naat tree (jackfruit leaf may be substituted) 1, root of the som-poi tree 1, saem-thale heartwood 1 — 5 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 tamlueng each. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 medium glass of the liquid at a time, before the evening meal, once a day. Its property makes the womb, or...

...the displaced diaphragm following childbirth to contract, healing in about 3-4 days. Caution: after taking this medicine, if pus or a great deal of leukorrheal discharge appears, add khao-yen-nuea tuber 1, khao-yen-tai tuber 1 — these 2 medicines, in equal weight of 4 baht each — into the same pot of boiling medicine. Once the womb or diaphragm has contracted, stop taking this medicine at once; continuing to take it will be dangerous.

Medicine for Leukorrhea and Men's Venereal Disease

Take the whole lemongrass plant, all 5 parts (pulled up whole to the root), weighing 20 baht, khao-yen-nuea tuber weighing 1 baht, khao-yen-tai tuber weighing 1 baht, one whole white-flowered ban-mai-ru-roi (everlasting-flower) plant, all 5 parts (pulled up whole to the root), sea salt (salt used for curry) added until very salty — these 5 medicines put in a clay pot and boiled with 3 parts water, simmered down until 1 part remains. Take 1 small cup of the liquid at a time, twice a day, before the morning and evening meals. Its property cures women's leukorrhea and men's venereal disease. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective; it has been used to cure many cases already.

Medicine for White Blood Disease in the Vessels

Take papaya root (black-stemmed) 1, chum-het-thet root 1, sugar-palm fibrous root 1, khilek root 1 — these 4 medicines, 5 handfuls of each, plus camphor weighing 5 salueng, aloes (yaa dam) weighing 5 tamlueng, phlai 7 slices (each slice consecrated with the names of the 5 Buddhas: Na Mo Phut Tha Ya) — 7 medicines in all. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, morning, midday, and evening, 3 times a day. If the disease has not been present long, one potful will cure it. If it has lasted long, boil and drink about 3 potfuls over about 10 days, and the disease of white blood cells in the vessels will go away. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Dried-Up Breast Milk

Take bunnak (Mesua ferrea) flower 1, cardamom seed 1, cardamom leaf 1, black pepper 1, dried ginger 1, foreign cinnamon 1 — 6 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each, plus rayom (Rauvolfia) weighing 6 baht — 7 medicines in all. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, before the morning and evening meals, twice a day. Its property helps draw out breast milk and makes the milk supply abundant. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Heat in the Chest

Take root of the garden phum-riang plant 1, root of the wild phum-riang plant 1, root of the phong-to plant 1, root of the phak-khao plant 1, root of the thao-wan-priang vine 1 — 5 medicines in equal parts. Wash clean, pound fine, mix with rice-rinse water, squeeze out about 1 teacup of liquid to drink, and also apply the liquid to the chest area. Its property cures heat in the chest. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for La Disease (Sang Disease)

Take red khee-ka leaf weighing 1 baht, red phan-ngu grass leaf weighing 1 baht, phak-khraat-hua-waen leaf weighing 1 baht, borax (calcined) weighing 1 salueng, with powdered python bile mixed in — grind into powder, form into pellets, and store. To use, dissolve with rice-rinse water and swab the mouth of the sick child, or give the child to drink. Its property cures la disease and children's sang disease. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for a Child with Convulsive Sang Disease

Take dried red lime paste (the red lime eaten with betel), about the size of a thumb, grind fine, mix with lime juice until the liquid is thick. Use a finger...

...dip in the medicine and swab the throat of a child suffering convulsive sang disease just once, and the convulsive sang disease will go away. It has been used to cure many cases already. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Excessive Sweating

Take chettamun-phloeng (plumbago root) 1, [illegible] 1, coriander seed 1, dried ginger 1, long pepper 1, unripe bael fruit 1, kum-nam tree bark 1, thong-lang tree root 1, winged-bean root 1 — 9 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each. Put in a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, simmer down until 1 part remains. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time. Its property is a medicine for excessive sweating; it makes the body feel cool, the skin turn pale, causes weakness throughout the body, cures faintness and exhaustion, and restores lost strength. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Tuberculosis

Take khilek heartwood 1, saem-san heartwood 1, jackfruit heartwood 1, teak wood 1, [illegible] heartwood 1 — these 5 medicines, 1 handful of each, plus aloes (yaa dam) weighing 1 baht, 11 neem twigs, 1 sprig of ratchaphruek (khun) vegetable, 7 slices of khamin-oi (turmeric cane), each slice consecrated with the names of the 5 Buddhas (Na Mo Phut Tha Ya) — 9 medicines in all. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water, chant over it with the Virtues of the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha 108 times, and simmer for a fairly long while. Take half a curry-bowl of the liquid at a time, 3 times a day, before meals. Its property cures tuberculosis. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective; it has been used with good results many times already.

Medicine for Sinusitis

Formula 1: Take the whole ya-nguang-chang (elephant-trunk grass) plant, all 5 parts (pulled up whole to the root), 1 plant, wash clean, together with red pork meat weighing...

...3 baht. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Drink the liquid for about 1 month, and the sinus disease will be completely cured. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Formula 2: Take [illegible] milk (free of disease), and use to drip into the nose every day. The symptoms of sinusitis, or chronic purulent cold, will steadily improve and be completely cured. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Medicine to Stop Uncontrolled Nosebleed

Take ash from the middle of the hearth, 1 pinch; soot from the middle of an incense-burner, 3 pinches (taken deliberately with 3 fingers: the thumb, index finger, and middle finger); 1 section of bamboo (mai-ruak), with a node retained at both ends, burned until charred — these 3 medicines put in a clay pot, boiled with 2 glasses of water, simmered down until 1 glass remains. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, 3 times a day, before meals. Its property stops uncontrolled nosebleed. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Lockjaw / Stiffened Tongue and Jaw

Take sifted white pepper 1, amber 1, ginger 1, asafoetida 1, camphor 1, civet musk 1 — 6 medicines in equal parts, ground fine, formed into a stick and stored. To use, grind the stick with liquor and apply to both sides of the jaw, or pour into the mouth. Its property cures the inability to open the mouth, releases the clenched jaw, cures a stiffened tongue and locked jaw with loss of consciousness, and can treat both blood rushing upward and hemorrhage. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Divine Sleep-Inducing Medicine

Take nutmeg 1, aloes (yaa dam) 1, asafoetida 1 — 3 medicines, taken in equal weight, plus sifted white pepper weighing the same as those 3 medicines combined...

...pound fine, mix with pure honey, and form into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take before going to bed. Its property makes the blood and wind circulate well and gives restful sleep. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Hair Loss

Take fresh boraphet vine 1, hua-duan vine 1 — these 2 medicines in equal parts, pound fine, squeeze out the liquid, and apply all over the scalp once a day for about 5-7 days. Its property cures hair loss caused by fungal infection. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine to Treat Hernia

Take samrong tree bark (fresh or dried, either may be used) together with clear limewater (limewater eaten with betel), grind on the lid of a clay pot, mix with the clear limewater, and grind until it becomes a thick liquid. Apply to the scrotum several times a day; this will make the scrotum contract, over about 10 days. Its property treats hernia until it returns to normal. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective; it has been used to cure many cases already.

Medicine for Nervous Disorders

Take red sandalwood 1, nutmeg 1, khao-yen-nuea tuber 1, khao-yen-tai tuber 1, khla tuber 1 — 5 medicines, taken in equal weight of 4 baht each, plus fresh ginger, 8 slices — 6 medicines in all. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid mixed with palm sugar as the vehicle, enough to give a slight sweetness each time, 1 teacup at a time. Its property cures nervous disorders. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Mental Illness

Take bird's-eye chili 1, sea salt (salt used for curry) 1, galangal tuber 1, khamin-oi 1, phlai tuber 1, sweet flag (waan-nam) 1, Epsom salt 1 — 7 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, morning, midday, and evening, 3 times a day, for about 15 days, and the symptoms of the mental illness will subside and go away. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Insanity

Take khao-yen-nuea tuber 1, khao-yen-tai tuber 1, euang-khamao orchid 1 — 3 medicines, taken in equal weight of 4 baht each. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, morning, midday, and evening, 3 times a day. Its property cures insanity, an abnormal mind resembling madness. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Headache

Formula 1: Take a fresh lime, slice into thin pieces, spread red lime-paste (the lime eaten with betel) thinly on the cut face of a slice, and use it to cover the temple on the aching side. If both sides ache, cover both temples. Leave in place until the pain goes away, or until the lime dries and falls off by itself. If the headache has not gone away, repeat with a fresh application.

Formula 2: Take 1 bulb of male garlic (single-clove garlic, with no segments) together with a suitable amount of clay, pound and mix together, and use as a poultice on both temples. Its property cures headache. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 3: Take a fairly large quantity of makham seeds, and...

...wash clean, pound fine, mix with brown palm sugar, and add sea salt (salt used for curry) in a suitable amount, so that it has both a sweet and a salty taste. Put it into a jar, seal the lid tightly, and bury it in unhusked rice for 3 nights. Then eat both the solid and the liquid for about 7 days. The headache, which recurs regularly every afternoon, will subside and go away. It has been used to cure many cases already. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Formula 4: Take a handful of shallots, wash clean, pound fine, squeeze out half a coffee-cup of juice, mix with 1 tablespoon of fresh sugarcane juice, stir together, and drink. Its property cures headache. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective; it has been used to cure many cases already.

Medicine for Chronic Headache

Take khilek heartwood 1, phak-siian-phee 1, maeng-lak (basil) plant 1 — 3 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each. Put in a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, simmer down until 1 part remains. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, 4-5 times a day. Its property cures chronic headache completely. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for a Woman's Headache After Childbirth

Take a fairly large quantity of dried buffalo dung, mix with a suitable amount of spices (curry-paste ingredients), pound and mix together fine, mix with rice-rinse water, and use as a poultice over the whole head of the sick woman. The headache will subside and vanish completely. Its property is exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Insomnia

Formula 1: Take unripe bael fruit 1, boraphet vine 1, pepper...

...hot pepper 1, khamin-oi 1 — 4 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each, pound fine, mix with pure honey, and take. Its property makes the blood and wind circulate well and gives deep, sound sleep. It has been used to cure many cases already; the result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 2: Take Terminalia chebula fruit 1, Terminalia bellirica fruit 1, cha-phlu root 1, cannabis 1 — 4 medicines in equal weight. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time. Its property cures insomnia. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 3: Take sang-maeo root 1, khon-thi-so root 1, saniat root 1, tamarind-fruit peel 1, ginger 1 — 5 medicines in equal parts. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time. Its property cures insomnia. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Formula 4: Take dried ginger 1, unripe bael fruit 1, khat-mon grass root 1, tin-nok grass 1, nut-grass tuber 1, phak-chi-lom seed 1 — 6 medicines, taken in equal weight of 1 baht each. Put in a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid at a time, morning and evening and before bed. Its property cures insomnia and also cures children's fever with nosebleed. The result is excellent and exceptionally effective.

Medicine for Loss of Appetite and Insomnia

Take nut-grass tuber, 1 condensed-milk tin's worth, and sifted white pepper, 1 condensed-milk tin's worth — grind these 2 medicines fine; butter 1 tin, pure honey 1 tin, condensed milk — these 4 ingredients, put into a pan over a fire and stir together until it becomes like toffee, and form into pills the size of a jujube seed...

To be taken every night before sleeping. Its virtue is that it helps one eat and sleep well, is a tonic that builds strength, cures wasting-thinness and weakness, and also serves as a rejuvenating medicine [for long life]. The results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Colds

Take rolled tobacco (shredded tobacco rolled in banana leaf or jackfruit leaf, for smoking) — one part; jasmine flower — one part; kaffir lime peel — one part. Take these three ingredients in equal amounts, dry them in the sun, then grind them together finely. Mix with borneol camphor, camphor, or menthol as appropriate. Use this as a snuff medicine. Its virtue cures colds with a stuffy nose, dizziness/light-headedness, and nerve pain. Results are excellent and truly effective. The owner of this formula has used it to treat himself, and has never again suffered a cold with a stuffy nose.

Medicine for Infants with Colds

Formula 1: Take a generous amount of shallots (the red onion used in curry), crush them, put in a clay pot and boil with water until cooked. Use the cooked shallot pulp as a poultice over the infant's whole head. Its virtue cures colds, stuffy nose, difficulty breathing, and expels wind/gas from the infant's stomach. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 2: Take shallot — one part; tamarind leaf — one part; soap-pod (som-poi) leaf — one part; turmeric powder — one part; chalk powder — one part; borneol camphor — one part. Take an appropriate amount of each of these six ingredients, pound finely, and use to fumigate the head of an infant with a cold. Its virtue cures colds in infants. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Cough

Formula 1: Take sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry) and hold it in the mouth. Its virtue cures the symptom of coughing, curing it in a truly marvelous way.

Formula 2: Take a fresh lime, cut it into wedges, and sprinkle it with fine salt (sea salt, the kind used to season curry). Wait for the salt to dissolve and soak into the flesh of the lime, then tilt the head back, open the mouth, and squeeze the lime juice into the mouth so it flows down into the throat. Its virtue treats the symptom of coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 3: Take a fresh lime, cut it into wedges, then hold the cut face of a lime wedge over smoke from a fire until it is blackened by the smoke. Sprinkle with fine salt (sea salt, the kind used to season curry). Wait for the salt to dissolve and soak into the lime flesh, then tilt the head back, open the mouth, squeeze the lime juice into the mouth so it flows down into the throat. Its virtue treats coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 4: Take 5-6 fresh makhaeng-khruea berries [a small bitter nightshade fruit], chew and swallow only the juice until the bitter taste is gone, then spit out and discard the pulp. Its virtue treats coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 5: Take sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry) and betel leaf (the leaf eaten with areca nut). Take an appropriate amount of each of these two ingredients, chew and hold in the mouth, swallowing the liquid down the throat 2-3 times. Its virtue cures coughing caused by a cold. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 6: Take 2 soup-spoons of pure honey with the juice of half a lime — squeeze in the lime juice, mix with the honey, stir well together, and take it all at once in a single dose. The coughing will stop at once. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 7: Take one handful of rang-chuet leaves [Thunbergia laurifolia], wash clean, pound until crushed, press out the juice, mix with about half a coffee-cup of rice-rinse water, stir together and drink. Its virtue cures coughing, making it go away. Results are excellent and truly effective — it has already been used to treat many people with good results.

Formula 8: Take a piece of ginger — one part; shallot — one part; sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry) — one part. Take an appropriate amount of each of these three ingredients, pound finely, mix with pure honey, and take by mouth. Its virtue treats coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 9: Take galangal — one part; lime — one part; white granulated sugar or brown sugar — one part. Take an appropriate amount of each of these three ingredients. Pound the galangal until lightly bruised, slice it thinly, squeeze on lime juice, and mix in the white sugar. Then hold in the mouth and chew slowly, swallowing the juice down the throat little by little. Its virtue treats coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 10: Take tamarind pulp and mix with pure honey, stir together well, and take by mouth. Its virtue treats coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 11: Take khao-yen-nuea tuber [northern Smilax root] — one part; khao-yen-tai tuber [southern Smilax root] — one part. Take 5 baht weight of each of these two ingredients equally, put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take about 1 teacup of the liquid, mix in a little sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry), and drink morning and evening, twice a day. Its virtue cures coughing. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 12: Take 4 baht weight of menthol, 2 salueng weight of camphor, and 2 salueng weight of borneol camphor. Grind these three ingredients together finely, put into a bottle and seal the lid tightly, leave for one night — the substance will dissolve into a liquid. Use it to inhale and to rub on the throat area; the symptoms of colds and coughing will quickly go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Chronic Cough

Take fresh utphit tuber (an appropriate amount); garlic — 7 cloves — one part...

...sun-dried ground pepper — 7 grains; long pepper — 7 catkins. Take these four ingredients, pound finely, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills the size of a corn kernel. Take 1 pill per dose. Its virtue cures chronic cough. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Coughing Up Blood

Take maka leaf — one part; thao-wan-priang vine [Derris scandens] — one part; thao-khan-daeng vine — one part; makham-kai leaf — one part; sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry). Take 5 tamlueng weight of each of these five ingredients, put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take the liquid, 1 teacup per dose. Its virtue cures coughing up blood, making it go away. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for a Hoarse, Dry Voice

Formula 1: Take bua-bok plant [Centella asiatica] and licorice root. Take an appropriate amount of each of these two ingredients, pound finely, and take with hot water. Its virtue cures a hoarse, dry voice, making it go away. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 2: Take 108 limes (rolled until soft, then washed, cut in half, and juiced); som-kung-noi [a small sour fruit], 10 baht weight; and 3 cowrie shells (burned until crisply charred). Grind these latter two ingredients into powder, then soak them in the prepared lime juice, seal the container tightly, and either bury it in unhusked rice or leave it out in the sun for 7 days. Then take the liquid, 1 teacup per dose, 2-3 times a day. Within 7 days the voice will become clear again, and it also serves as a tonic for the voice. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Painful, Bruised, Swollen Eyes

Formula 1: Take turmeric powder and sprinkle it onto charcoal in a brazier so smoke rises; have the patient fume the eyes in the smoke, once a day, for only 2-3 days. The symptoms of painful, bruised, swollen eyes will quickly go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 2: Take sappan wood (cut into small pieces) — one part; borneol camphor (a moderate amount) — one part; rainwater (clean) — one part. Put the sappan wood and borneol camphor into a small glazed container, add rainwater to cover the ingredients, and soak for about 3 days. When the liquid has turned red, filter through thin white cloth to obtain only the liquid. Use cotton wool dipped in the liquid as eye drops, or use an eyedropper tube if available. Its virtue cures all kinds of painful, bruised, swollen eye conditions, and treats red eye with excellent, truly effective results.

Medicine for Red Eye

Formula 1: Take phak-bia plant [purslane], wash clean, pound finely, and press out only the liquid. Dip a lump of alum in and swirl it in the purslane liquid until dissolved, for a short while, then filter through thin white cloth. Use cotton wool dipped in the liquid as eye drops. Its virtue cures red eye and eyes inflamed by sun/wind, making them go away. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 2: Take turmeric powder and human breast milk, mix together and heat over the fire until hot, then set aside to cool. Use cotton wool dipped in the liquid as eye drops, or apply directly as eye drops. Its virtue cures red eye and eyes inflamed by sun/wind. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 3: Take about 1 small bottle of honey from the 5th lunar month, add 3 grains of 'male' sea salt (the kind used for curry, with elongated crystals), soak together for about 3 hours. Use the liquid as eye drops, 3 times a day, 2 drops each time, for only 3 days. Its virtue cures red eye, bruised eyes, dim vision, watery eyes, and pterygium. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 4: Take betel leaf (the leaf eaten with areca nut), roast it over the fire until wilted, then soak it in rainwater collected in the open sky (rainwater caught out in the open), add borneol camphor...

...mix in a little, and use as eye drops. Its virtue cures red eye, dim vision, and eye inflammation. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 5: Take khamin-oi [a yellow rhizome related to turmeric] — one part; boraphet [Tinospora crispa] — one part; tam-lueng leaf [Coccinia grandis] — one part. Take an equal amount of each of these three ingredients, pound finely, and press out only the liquid. Filter through thin white cloth, discard the pulp, and keep only the liquid. Add a little alum, mix in, and use the liquid as eye drops. Its virtue cures red eye, dim vision, and blurred/failing vision. Results are excellent and truly effective. This formula is a fresh medicine that may only be prepared and used within a single day — it is absolutely forbidden to use medicine that has been kept overnight.

Formula 6: Take 4-5 leaves of the di-mi tree, wash clean, and squeeze the leaves by hand so the juice drips into the eyes, 1-2 drops in each eye, morning and evening, twice a day, for only 2-3 days, and red eye will be cured. Its virtue is truly effective.

Medicine for Curing the Eye Condition Called 'To' [pterygium/cataract growth]

Formula 1: Take one handful of jasmine flowers, pound finely, mix with 2 flakes of pure borneol camphor, wrap in thin white cloth, and press out the liquid. Use as eye drops, 3-4 times a day. Its virtue cures the eye condition of 'to'. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 2: Take boraphet — one part; alum — one part; borneol camphor — one part; di-mi-khon (or di-mi-mak may also be used) — one part. Take 1 salueng weight of each of these four ingredients equally, mix with liquor (an appropriate amount), and leave to soak for 3 days. Use the liquid as eye drops. Its virtue cures the eye condition of 'to'. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 3: Take 3 galangal leaves (small leaves); 1 khamin-oi tuber (a large tuber); and 1 handful of Thai water spinach (the kind growing wild in rice fields). Put these three ingredients into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Once it boils, take the pot off the fire, remove the lid, and cover the mouth of the pot with thin white cloth. Have the patient bend over and hold the eye open to be steamed by the vapor at the mouth of the pot. Do this once a day for 3-4 days in a row. If after boiling one potful the disease has not yet cleared, prepare and boil another new potful. Its virtue cures sore eyes and the eye condition of 'to', making it go away. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 4: Take khamin-oi — one part; root of rang-nok-kaling — one part; root of anchan [butterfly pea] — one part. Take 2 baht weight of each of these three ingredients equally, pound finely, wrap in thin white cloth and soak in rainwater. Use the liquid as eye drops. Its virtue cures the eye condition of 'to'. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 5: Take root of anchan — one part; head of phlai [Zingiber cassumunar] — one part; khamin-oi — one part. Take 2 baht weight of each of these three ingredients equally, grind finely, and form into a stick to keep for later use — dissolve it in rainwater collected in the open sky (rainwater caught out in the open) [when needed]. Use as eye drops. Its virtue cures the eye condition of 'to'. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 6: Take khamin-oi — one part; root of angkap — one part; root of red phan-ngu — one part. Take 2 baht weight of each of these three ingredients equally, plus 3 grains of 'male' salt (sea salt with elongated crystals). Pound finely and press out only the liquid. If little liquid is obtained, add a little rainwater. It should be kept in a refrigerator, taking care not to let it spoil. Use as eye drops. Its virtue cures the eye condition of 'to'. Results are truly effective.

Formula 7: Take root of red phan-ngu grass — one part; root of white phan-ngu grass — one part; root of phak-khom-hin — one part; root of anchan (white-flowered kind) — one part. Take an equal amount of each of these four ingredients, plus mak-kam-ta-chang seeds equal to [the total of] the four ingredients...

Take the four root ingredients and slice them into thin pieces; pound the mak-kam-ta-chang seeds finely. Put them into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water until it boils. Keep the liquid in a clean container for 7 days. Use the liquid as eye drops, several times a day. Its virtue causes a large amount of eye discharge to come out, which peels away the membrane forming the 'to' growth so that it comes out along with it, curing pterygium, [the named eye conditions] to-lamyai, to-thua, ma-ta-pha-fang, and red eye. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 8: Take alum — one part; catechu — one part; lac resin — one part. Take 2 salueng weight of each of these three ingredients equally; red tobacco (the kind Chinese people smoke) — 1 baht weight; betel leaf (the leaf eaten with areca nut) — 7 leaves. Take these five ingredients, put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water, filter the liquid until clean, put in a bottle and keep. Use the liquid as eye drops, morning and evening. Its virtue cures the eye condition of 'to' accompanied by severe eye pain. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Eye Pain So Severe It Feels the Eye Will Burst

Take phai leaf and tam-lueng leaf, in whatever quantity is needed, pound finely, and use as a poultice on the big toe. Whichever eye is in pain, apply the poultice to the big toe on that same side. If both eyes are in pain, apply the poultice to both big toes. Its virtue cures eye pain so severe it feels the eye will burst. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Dim/Failing Vision

Take 2 handfuls of tamarind leaves, pound finely with 4 glasses of rainwater, put into a glazed container, add a little borneol camphor and sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry), mix in, and leave to soak for about 10 days. Then filter through thin white cloth and use the liquid as eye drops. Its virtue cures dim vision, bruised eyes, and blurred vision. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Ears Discharging Fluid

Formula 1: Take beeswax powder (sifted fine) and borneol camphor. Take an appropriate amount of each of these two ingredients, grind together finely, load into a drinking straw, and blow it into the ear canal, 2-3 times a day, for only 2-3 days, and the discharging-ear condition will be completely cured. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 2: Take leaves of ka-lek-ka-lon (a plant resembling a banana tree but with smaller, longer leaves), roast over the fire until slightly wilted, then squeeze the juice from those leaves, mix with a little borneol camphor, and use as ear drops, twice a day. The discharging-ear condition will be cured within 1 day. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 3: Take 1 leaf of orchid (the kind widely kept as a hobby plant), roast it over a candle flame until just wilted, leave it to cool, then squeeze the liquid from that orchid leaf and use as drops in the ear canal, 1-2 times a day, for only 3 days, and the discharging-ear condition will be completely cured — it has already been used to cure many cases. Before applying these drops, cotton wool dipped in salt water (that is, boiled water mixed with salt) must be used to clean the ear canal thoroughly every time before applying the medicine.

Formula 4: Take a fresh hog-plum fruit, wash clean, and squeeze its juice as drops into the ear canal, about 3-4 drops, 2-3 times a day (before applying the medicine each time, clean the ear canal first by using cotton wool to blot out all the discharge). Within 4-5 days the discharging-ear condition will go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 5: Take wan-hoi-khraeng [a medicinal 'wan' plant], wash clean, roast over the fire until just wilted, squeeze out the liquid, and use cotton wool dipped in the liquid as drops in the ear canal on the side that has the discharge...

...on the side that has the discharge, morning and evening, and the discharging-ear condition will go away within 12 hours. Its virtue is truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Ringing/Buzzing Ears

Take 6 parts uncooked rice, 1 part sifted ground pepper, 3 parts sea salt (the kind used for seasoning curry). Take these three ingredients, roast over the fire until well cooked, then grind finely and mix with liquor, or mix with hot water instead. Take by mouth, 1 teacup per dose. The symptoms of ringing ears and discharging ears will go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Hard-of-Hearing

Formula 1: Take star-fruit leaf — one part; ma-yom leaf — one part; jackfruit leaf — one part. Take an equal amount of each of these three ingredients, burn them over the fire to ash, mix with an appropriate amount of borneol camphor, grind finely, mix with a little coconut oil, and use as drops in the ear canal. The symptoms of hard-of-hearing and deafness will gradually go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 2: Take an appropriate quantity of garlic, pound finely and press out the juice, use as drops in the ear canal, once a day for about 7 days. Its virtue cures hard-of-hearing and ringing ears. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 3: Take pig's lungs, wash clean, boil with an appropriate amount of white cabbage (without adding salt), and eat both the meat and the broth once a day. Prepare and take the liquid medicine for only 3 doses, and the symptom of hard-of-hearing caused by exposure to loud noise will vanish completely. Its virtue is truly effective.

Medicine for Curing Deafness

Take leaf of the khon-thi-so tree — one part; leaf of the phu-kwang tree — one part; leaf of the wild ta-khop tree — one part...

...borneol camphor — one part; camphor — one part. Take an appropriate amount of each of these five ingredients, pound them together finely, then roast over the fire until crisply cooked, grind finely, and dissolve with an appropriate amount of coconut oil. Use as drops in the ear canal once a day, continuing every day. The symptoms of deafness will gradually go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Medicine for Curing High Blood Pressure

Formula 1: Take the entire mango-mistletoe plant (take the whole plant down to the root), a generous amount, dry it in the sun, put it in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid in place of tea. Its virtue cures high blood pressure, lowering it, and headache symptoms will quickly go away. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 2: Take the ka-lon variety of mango-mistletoe plant (take the whole plant down to the root), a generous amount, wash clean, chop into small pieces, dry in the sun, roast over the fire until cooked to a golden color, and steep with hot water. Drink in place of tea. Its virtue cures high blood pressure, bringing it down to normal. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 3: Take the kaeo variety of mango-mistletoe plant (take the whole plant down to the root) together with khao-yen-nuea tuber. Take an appropriate amount of each of these two ingredients, put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid in place of tea. Its virtue cures high blood pressure, bringing it down to normal. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 4: Take the plant and root of ra-yom [Rauvolfia serpentina], a generous amount, wash clean, put in a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmering down until 1 part remains. Drink the liquid, 1 glass per dose, before breakfast and before the evening meal. Its virtue cures high blood pressure, bringing it down to normal. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 5: Take a handful of male papaya root (take root growing on the eastern side, cutting off and discarding the head and tip of the root) together with 1 lump of alum (about the size of a big toe), put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid, 1 glass per dose, 2-3 times a day. Its virtue helps reduce high blood pressure to normal. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 6: Take the whole lin-mangkon ["dragon's tongue"] plant (take the whole plant down to the root), a generous amount, wash clean, put in a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmer down until 1 part remains, mix with rock sugar (just enough for a slight sweetness). Drink the liquid regularly every day. Its virtue cures high blood pressure, gradually reducing it until it becomes normal.

Formula 7: Take chai/celery plant (the kind eaten with rice porridge or put in noodle soup), press out only the juice, and drink it. Its virtue cures high blood pressure, restoring it to normal. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 8: Take raw celery stalk, cut into small pieces, and eat it together with meals as an accompaniment every time. Its virtue helps reduce high blood pressure to normal. Results are excellent and truly effective.

Formula 9: Take chicken gall (the gall bladder of a chicken) and eat it, 2 galls a day, over a period of 15 days, totaling 30 galls consumed. The symptoms of high blood pressure will vanish completely. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 10: Take a handful of the whole sap-suea plant [Chromolaena odorata] (take the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, together with 7 grains of sifted ground pepper, put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid, 1 teacup per dose, morning, midday, and evening, three times a day, for about 7 days, and high blood pressure will go away. Its virtue is truly effective.

Formula 11: He instructs to take the fine roots of the rice plant (pulling up a rice plant, washing it clean, then cutting off only the fine roots), about 1-2 handfuls. Dry it in the sun together with 5 pieces of "phak khiao" (cut into large pieces). Put into a clay pot, boil with an appropriate amount of water, simmer until done, then pour the liquid medicine into a thermos and keep it. Take 1 glass at a time, adding a little white granulated sugar. Take it 3 times a day — before breakfast, before the midday meal, and before sleep — continuously every day for about 2 months. It has the property of lowering high blood pressure with truly marvelous effect; it has been used to treat this with good results before. If the patient is emaciated and weak, he instructs to take 1 piece of pork loin (in place of the phak khiao) together with the fine rice roots, boil with an appropriate amount of water, and use the liquid medicine the same way.

Medicine for Low Blood Pressure

He instructs to take 1 kg of lean pork with 1 can of ground white pepper and condensed milk. Grind and mix these two ingredients together, put into a jar or bottle, add pure honey until it covers the medicine, and bury it in unhusked rice for about 15 days or more. Take this steeped medicine, 1 tablespoon at a time, once a day, every day, for only 5 days. The symptoms of low blood pressure and anemia will return to normal. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Medicine for Anemia

He instructs to take a fresh lime, cut in half, and squeeze out only the juice. Mix it with sweet syrup and season with sea salt (table salt) as appropriate, add ice, and drink it often. It is a tonic for the blood and cures anemia, making the complexion glow and the skin oily and smooth. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Medicine for Diabetes

Formula 1: He instructs to take a beehive (the whole hive together with the larvae), 1 hive, liquor 1 bottle, krachai (fingerroot) roots 12 pieces, bark of the tako-na tree (fresh-cut or dried is fine) 3 pieces. Take these four ingredients and steep them together: put the beehive into a jar or bottle, pour in liquor to cover it, add the krachai roots (peeled and crushed first) and the tako-na bark, mix in, and let it steep for 3 days. Drink this steeped liquor, 1 Chinese teacup at a time, before breakfast and dinner, twice a day, every day continuously until a full month has passed.

He instructs to take the whole ngueak-pla-mo plant (the whole plant down to the root), an appropriate amount, wash clean, cut into small pieces, dry in the sun, and grind into powder — 6 Chinese teacups' worth. Take ground white pepper, 3 Chinese teacups' worth, grind finely, mix with pure honey, and form into pills the size of jujube seeds, 108 pills. Take 1 pill at a time before breakfast and dinner every day, continuously for a full 45 days, and diabetes will be completely cured. The owner of this formula used it to cure himself completely. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 2: He instructs to take the khrop-chakrawan plant (or "phuen si" plant) together with the mimosa (maiyarap) plant, equal amounts of each. Wash clean, cut and dry in the sun, roast over fire until cooked and yellow. Steep in hot water and drink the liquid in place of tea. Diabetes will gradually go away.

Formula 3: He instructs to take the red variety of the ngueak-pla-mo plant (the whole plant down to the root), weighing 10 baht, with ground white pepper weighing 5 baht...

Take these two ingredients, pound finely, mix with pure honey, and form into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take them before sleep every night. Diabetes will be completely cured.

Formula 4: He instructs to take 1 kg of the root of the "me-dan" tree, wash it clean, put in a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water, add sea salt (table salt) to a suitably salty taste. Take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine, 3 times a day, every day. Diabetes will gradually go away.

Formula 5: He instructs to take 10 parts of khi-lak shoots with 1 part alum. Pound these two ingredients finely, mix with pure honey, and form into pills. Take 1 pill a day. If the diabetes is mild, taking it for only 30 days will cure it completely; if it is severe, it must be taken for somewhat longer, and diabetes will certainly gradually be cured. It has been used with good results many times.

Formula 6: He instructs to take 15 bodhi leaves, 1 baht weight of "khao yen nuea" root, 1 baht weight of "khao yen tai" root, and teak wood (of the kind used to make coffins), shaved into small pieces, 1 handful. Take these four ingredients, put into a clay pot, and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine before meals, 3 times a day. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect. While boiling this medicine, light 1 incense stick out in the open, and reverently call to mind Luang Phor Hom, the owner of this formula.

Formula 7: He instructs to take the leaves of the inthanin tree, about 2-3 handfuls, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water, let it cool, then take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 8: He instructs to take corn silk (or cat's-whiskers grass)...

any amount desired, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid medicine often in place of tea. It has the property of curing diabetes; when the illness has only just begun it will go away within a few days.

Formula 9: He instructs to take 1 thong-phan-chang leaf, 1 chumhet leaf, 1 (part) ground white pepper, 1 ngueak-pla-mo plant. Take these four ingredients, 1 baht weight each, equal amounts, dry in the sun, grind into powder, mix with pure honey, and form into pills. Take them morning and evening. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 10: He instructs to take the bark of the khai-nao tree with sea salt (table salt), an appropriate amount of each. Put into a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, and simmer down until only 1 part of water remains. Take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine before breakfast and before sleep every day, for only 7 days. Diabetes will go away. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 11: He instructs to take 1 phak-khiao fruit with 2-3 salted sea crabs, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Eat both the meat and all of the liquid. It is guaranteed that with just a single potful, diabetes will be completely cured at once. It has been used to cure many cases. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 12: He instructs to take leaves of the hu-kwang (Indian almond) tree (with the leaf stalks and tips neatly trimmed off), 1 handful, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid medicine in place of tea, regularly every day. It has the property of helping to bring blood sugar down to normal. The people of Sungai Kolok favor boiling and drinking it; many cases have been cured this way.

Formula 13: He instructs to take khi-lek heartwood, any amount as needed, chop finely, put into a jar or bottle, and boil water mixed with sea salt...

(table salt) to a suitably salty taste, boil and simmer until thoroughly cooked, then pour into a jar or bottle, seal the lid tightly, and bury it in unhusked rice for 3 nights. Take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine 10 minutes before meals, 3 times a day, every day. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect; it has been used with good results.

Formula 14: He instructs to take teak wood 1 (part), "mai ruak" bamboo 1 (part) — burn these two ingredients to ash, taking 1 hectogram weight of each — and 7 corncobs (roasted over fire until cooked and yellow). Take these three ingredients, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine after meals, 3 times a day, or it may be drunk in place of tea. It has the property of curing diabetes completely, with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 15: He instructs to take teak leaves with pandan leaves, equal amounts of each, wash clean, roast over fire until cooked and yellow, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid medicine in place of tea every day for about 1 month. Diabetes will be completely cured. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 16: He instructs to take the takrap plant (pulled up whole, down to the root), any amount as needed, wash clean, cut and dry in the sun, roast over fire until cooked and yellow, steep in hot water, and drink in place of tea. It has the property of helping to lower blood sugar down to normal; one must check often — if the blood sugar drops below normal, one must stop taking this medicine immediately.

Formula 17: He instructs to take galangal leaves (red or green galangal leaves are both fine), 3-4 leaves, wash clean, pound finely mixed with boiled water, then squeeze out only the liquid. Take 1 teacup of the medicine, twice a day...

morning and evening, prepare and take the medicine continuously every day. Diabetes will gradually go away. It has a truly marvelous effect. Before taking this medicine, light 5 incense sticks each time and pay respects to the guardian spirit of the place at Phra Mongkut Klao Hospital, every time.

Formula 18: He instructs to take 1 (part) palmyra-palm root, 1 (part) coconut root, 1 (part) areca-palm root, 1 (part) papaya root, 1 (part) lotus stamen, 1 (part) alum (calcined) — take these six ingredients, 5 baht weight each, equal amounts, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take 1 glass of the liquid medicine morning and evening, every day. When 15 days are complete, pour out and discard the medicine, boil a fresh potful, and take it every day until 30 days are complete. Diabetes will be completely cured. The owner of this medicine used it to cure himself completely. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 19: He instructs to take 7 leaves of the water inthanin tree, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take the liquid medicine regularly every day. Within just a few days, diabetes and high blood pressure will go away. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 20: He instructs to take 1 (part) longan flower, 1 (part) "khao yen nuea" root, 1 (part) "khao yen tai" root — take these three ingredients in equal amounts, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Drink the liquid medicine in place of tea. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 21: He instructs to take 1 (part) pure honey, 1 (part) lime juice, 1 (part) plain water — take these three ingredients, 1 tablespoon each, mix together, and take 3 times a day. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 22: He instructs to take 1 (part) luk-tai-bai plant, 1 (part) "khao yen nuea" root, 1 (part) "khao yen tai" root — take these three ingredients in equal amounts...

put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water, drink the liquid medicine in place of tea regularly every day. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 23: He instructs to take five parts of the sai grass and five parts of the prap grass (the whole plant down to the root), 1 handful of each. Take these two ingredients, wash clean, tie into 3 bundles, put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmer down until 1 part of water remains. Drink the liquid medicine in place of tea, 3 times a day, 1 teacup each time, for about 15 days. Diabetes will go away. It has a truly marvelous effect and has been used with good results many times.

Formula 24: He instructs to take five parts of the cha-phlu plant (the whole plant down to the root), 1 handful, wash clean, fold the cha-phlu vine into 3 folds, tie it into 3 bundles with bamboo strips, put into a clay pot and boil with 3 khan (bowls) of water, simmer down until 1 khan of water remains. Drink the liquid medicine. It has the property of curing diabetes with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 25: He instructs to take red Chinese mushroom (mostly found in the northeastern region), an appropriate amount, wash clean, and place in a covered container. Boil strong Chinese tea (using plenty of Chinese tea leaves), add either brown or white granulated sugar mixed into the boiled tea until slightly sweet, keep it boiling on the fire for about 10 minutes, then remove and let it cool, and strain out and discard the tea leaves. Take this tea liquid, put it in a container together with the red Chinese mushroom, cover the container and pierce a hole to let air in. Drink this tea liquid in place of a beverage every day, all the time. When the liquid is used up, boil more tea mixed with sugar and steep it again; continue drinking it. Diabetes will go away within 15 days. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 26: He instructs to take raw sweet potato, peel it, then...

wash it clean, and eat it raw, 1 tuber a day, continuously for about 1 month. It has the property of curing diabetes, with good, truly marvelous effect.

Formula 27: He instructs to take fresh raw chicken bile, taken 2 gallbladders' worth at a time, before meals, 3 times a day, totaling 6 gallbladders a day, for a period of 7 days. It has the property of curing diabetes with good, truly marvelous effect.

Formula 28: He instructs to take five parts of the cat's-whiskers plant (the whole plant down to the root), 1 (part) bael-tree root, 1 (part) Indian-gooseberry (makham-pom) root, 1 (part) makham-pom-din root, 1 (part) teak-tree root, 1 (part) unhusked rice — take these six ingredients in equal amounts, put into a clay pot and boil with an appropriate amount of water. Take 1 teacup of the liquid medicine, 3 times a day, before meals. It has the property of curing diabetes with good, truly marvelous effect, and has been used with good results in many cases.

Formula 29: He instructs to take about 1 handful of ma-waeng-khruea berries, wash clean, fry with 1-2 chicken eggs, and eat every day, continuously for about 30 days. Diabetes will go away. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 30: He instructs to take 2 coffee-spoons of pure honey, 2 coffee-spoons of vinegar ("Aor.Sor.Ror." brand), half a coffee-spoon of table salt, mix with 1 coffee-cup of warm water, and stir until blended. Take it before sleep every night, continuously for only 7 days, and good results will appear — blood sugar will fall and symptoms of aches and fatigue will go away. When taken continuously for about 1 year, diabetes will certainly be completely cured. While taking this formula, no food is forbidden as harmful. The owner of this formula used it to cure himself completely.

Medicine for Asthma

Formula 1: He instructs to take human hair (hair from a person's head), a good amount, wash clean, dry in the sun, roast over fire until charred, grind into powder, and mix with an appropriate amount of liquor. Take 1 teacup at a time, once a day (this medicine should not be taken while an asthma attack is currently flaring up), for only about 7 days. Asthma that has been present for no more than 5 years will be completely cured. The owner of this formula used it to cure himself completely. It has a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 2: He instructs to take a good amount of frangipani (lan-thom) heartwood, chop it finely, put it in a pan and boil with an appropriate amount of water, then strain the liquid and simmer it down into a sticky resin (thick enough to form into pills), mix with good-quality liquor, and form into pills the size of jujube seeds for taking. It has the property of curing asthma completely, with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 3: He instructs to prepare an offering in a small banana-leaf tray, 1 tray, placing savory and sweet food in it along with flowers, incense, and a candle, lighting 1 incense stick and 1 candle. Carry the tray and walk straight to a clump of lemongrass (it is absolutely forbidden to look back, or to look left or right). Upon reaching the lemongrass clump, set the offering down and present it to the lemongrass, then press the palms together and say to oneself, in one's own voice, "Dear doctor, your child is suffering from asthma, and has come to ask the doctor for medicine, please," and answer oneself, "Yes — take it and boil it to drink; the asthma is now completely cured." Then, using both hands, take hold of the one particular lemongrass stalk that was marked, pull it up, shake off the soil, fold the tip and the base of the stalk together, and tie it with string into 3 bundles. There is no need to wash it. Put it into a clay pot and boil with 3 glasses of water, simmer down until 1 glass of water remains. Drink the liquid medicine all at once in a single dose. It has the property of curing asthma completely, and has been used to cure every case treated.

Formula 4: He instructs to take 8 "malaeng bang chang" insects, roast over fire until charred and crisp, then grind finely and mix with liquor. Take 1 teacup at a time, 2-3 times a day. It has the property of curing asthma completely, with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 5: He instructs to take 3 pieces of pork, place them in a red-ant nest for about 20 hours, then take that pork and chop it finely, and curry it with ivy-gourd (tamlueng) shoots. Eat both the meat and the liquid. Prepare and eat it only 2-3 times, and asthma will be completely cured.

Formula 6: He instructs to take 5 "nat" leaves, 10 baht weight of ma-dan root, 1 baht weight of alum. Take these three ingredients, pound into powder, steep in hot water and drink in place of tea. It has the property of helping to expel phlegm, dissolve phlegm, and cut off the root of asthma, curing it completely with truly marvelous good effect.

Formula 7: He instructs to take five parts of the tam-yae (nettle) plant (the whole plant down to the root), a good amount, wash clean, pound finely, squeeze out only the liquid, and mix with pure honey (equal amounts of each). Take 1 glass at a time. It has the property of causing vomiting until the "nest" of the asthma comes out. It has been used with truly marvelous good results.

Formula 8: He instructs to take five parts of the luk-tai-bai plant (the whole plant down to the root), a good amount, wash clean, pound finely, mix with boiled water and squeeze out only the liquid medicine. Take 1 teacup at a time, once a day, for 3 days. It has the property of curing asthma that is currently flaring up, stopping it immediately. It has been used with good results many times.

Formula 9: He instructs to take khao mak (fermented sticky rice, the kind favored for eating...

with black glutinous rice), 1 teacup, with stingray skin (burnt over fire until charred and crisp, ground finely), 1 baht weight. Take these two ingredients, mix together, and eat the whole cupful in a single dose. It has the property of curing asthma completely; it has been used with truly marvelous good results.

Formula 10: He instructs to take fresh crocodile meat, a good amount, stir-fry it with curry chili paste, mix with an appropriate amount of liquor, and eat it together with cooked rice for only 3-4 times. Asthma will be completely cured. It has a truly marvelous effect and has been used with good results many times.

Formula 11: He instructs to take luffa seeds (the kind of luffa used in cooking) that have been dried in the sun, shell out only the inner kernel, any amount as needed, pound finely and mix with liquor. Take it 3 times, with the dosage and timing set as follows:

First time: take 2 salueng weight of luffa-seed kernel, mix with 1/2 (measure) of liquor, and drink it all.

Second time: take 2 salueng weight of luffa-seed kernel, mix with 1/2 (measure) of liquor, and drink it all. The interval from the first time is 1 day — that is, taken every other day.

Third time: take 3 salueng weight of luffa-seed kernel, mix with 1/2 (measure) of liquor, and drink it all. The interval from the second time is 1 day — that is, taken every other day.

Once this medicine has been taken, it will cause severe vomiting until the "nest" of the asthma comes out; therefore the dosage and the timing of taking the medicine must be set apart every other day. Patients of weak health should absolutely not use this formula.

Formula 12: He instructs to take shredded tobacco ("ya-chun," the kind rolled in a banana leaf or a nipa-palm leaf for smoking) with white lime paste, equal amounts of these two ingredients, and 2-3 chicken eggs (cracked and using only the egg white). Take these three ingredients, mix and knead thoroughly together, and use it as a poultice on the middle of the back, right at the sacrum. Once this medicine has been applied as a poultice, it will cause vomiting that comes out white — then green — then light green in color; the "nest" of the asthma will come out together with the light-green vomit. Once the nest of the asthma has come out, immediately remove the poultice from that area.

While the vomiting is occurring, drink plenty of young coconut water, or take sai grass, boil it with an appropriate amount of water, and drink about 1 glass of the liquid. Patients of weak health are absolutely forbidden from taking this formula, because their bodily strength to resist is insufficient; it could be dangerous and even fatal. It has the property of curing asthma completely with a truly marvelous effect.

Formula 13: He instructs to take a fresh chicken egg (the fertilized kind, capable of developing into a chick) with distilled vinegar, mixed together by cracking 1 fresh egg into a glass, adding 2 tablespoons of vinegar, mixing them together and stirring until well combined. Take it before breakfast every day for 15 days; the symptoms of asthma will subside. If the case is severe, prepare this medicine to take before breakfast and before dinner, twice a day, every day for 15 days; the asthma symptoms will improve greatly. After that, prepare this medicine to take before breakfast, once a day, every day, for 15 days, making a total of 45 days; the asthma will be completely cured. This formula has a truly marvelous effect and has been used with good results many times.

Formula 14: He instructs to take 1 (part) thawan-priang vine, 1 (part) ma-kham-kai leaf, 1 (part) fang (sappanwood), 1 (part) haeo-mu tuber — take these four ingredients, 2 salueng weight each, equal amounts...

60 [continuing a formula from the previous page] ...แสมสาร wood, weighing 6 salueng. These 5 ingredients are put into a clay pot and boiled with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, only 4-5 doses, and asthma/wheezing will be completely cured. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 15: Take sugarcane turmeric (ขมิ้นอ้อย) 1 part, rolling tobacco (the shredded tobacco used for rolling with banana leaf or nipa-palm leaf to smoke) 1 part, white lime paste 1 part — these 3 ingredients, take 4 baht weight of each, equal amounts, pound and mix together until fine. Use as a poultice on the shin (either the right or left side is fine), bind it with cloth. After about 30 minutes it will cause vomiting that expels all the disease-matter of the asthma. This formula must not be used on anyone aged 60 or above, because their strength is insufficient — it could endanger life.

Formula 16: Take 5 leaves of the ต้นตองแตก tree, wash them clean while invoking the Five Buddhas (that is, reciting "นะโม พุท ธา ยะ" over every leaf). Pound until fine, squeeze out only the liquid, mix with white lime (sift out only the fine part), form into pellets the size of a gecko's egg. Take with honey before an attack of wheezing begins, once a day for only 3 days, and the asthma/wheezing will be completely cured. This formula is for treating patients no older than 40; the asthma/wheezing will vanish suddenly, cast off at once. It has extremely excellent properties.

Formula 17: Take fingerroot (กระชาย) 1 part, kaffir-lime peel 1 part, the whole camphor-basil plant (ต้นการบูร, using the whole plant down to the root) 1 part, red holy basil 1 part, ginger 1 part — these 5 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, dry in the sun, grind into powder, mix with genuine honey, roll into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take 2 pills at a time, before the morning meal. It has properties that cure asthma/wheezing, with truly excellent results.

Formula 18: Take salted crab (สแมม crab preserved as salted crab), 5 pieces...

61 [continuing the salted-crab formula] ...roast it in a clay pot until the crab is cooked and charred, grind fine and mix with 3 tablespoons of rice-porridge water, stir until blended. Take it 3 times a day; the asthma/wheezing symptoms will clear up within 3 days. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 19: Take เถาวัลย์เปรียง vine weighing 3 baht, red ผักเบี้ย weighing 3 baht, สำมะงา plant weighing 1 baht, camphor weighing 1 baht — these 4 ingredients, put into a clay pot and boil with 1 part water to 1 part liquor, or alternatively 2 parts water to 1 part liquor. Take the medicine before the morning and evening meals. It has properties that cure asthma/wheezing and can treat both children and adults; it has cured many people before.

Formula 20: Take galangal 1 handful, มะกา leaves 1 handful, unhusked rice and husked rice 1 pinch — these 3 ingredients, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine before the morning and evening meals, twice a day, every day continuously for about 30 days; the asthma will clear up. It has truly excellent properties and has cured many people before.

Formula 21: Take 108 cloves of garlic, 108 grains of sifted white pepper, 108 nutgrass tubers (แห้วหมู) — these 3 ingredients, pound until fine, mix with genuine honey, form into pills the size of a corn kernel. Take 2-3 pills at a time, in the morning and evening and before bed, 3 times a day. It has properties that cure asthma that has only recently begun, with truly excellent results.

Phlegm-Expelling Medicine (เสลด)

Formula 1: Take 5th-lunar-month honey, 100 cc (about 1/3 of a liter), tamarind pulp weighing 3 baht, dried มะขามป้อม (dry it and use only the flesh, with the seed removed) weighing 2 baht, brown sugar weighing 3 salueng — these 4 ingredients, mix together by pouring the honey into...

62 ...into a pan set over the fire and simmered until cooked. Add the brown sugar and stir until well blended, then add the tamarind pulp and stir to mix, then add the มะขามป้อม and stir to mix. Simmer over the fire until thick enough to roll into pills easily, then remove from the heat and roll into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take to cure coughing; it serves as a phlegm-expelling medicine for people with asthma. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 2: Take the five "candle-seeds" (เทียนทั้งห้า: red, white, black, rice-grain, and ตากบแตน candle-seed, 1 part each), the three myrobalans (สมอไทย, สมอเทศ, สมอพิเภก, 1 part each), มะขามป้อม 1 part, wild-betel root 1 part, pine heartwood 1 part, ขี้เหล็ก heartwood 1 part, black resin (ยาดำ) 1 part, tamarind leaf 1 part — 14 ingredients in all, take equal amounts of each, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, before the morning and evening meals. It has laxative properties, cures bronchial inflammation, and expels phlegm with truly excellent results; it has been used with good results before.

Formula 3: Take fresh garlic-plant leaves, a suitably large quantity, boil with water and drink the liquid. It has the property of drying up phlegm, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Breathlessness and Panting

Take ylang-ylang root weighing 6 baht, พิกุล root weighing 5 baht, ทองพันชั่ง root weighing 5 baht, northern "cool-rice" tuber (ข้าวเย็นเหนือ) weighing 5 baht, southern "cool-rice" tuber (ข้าวเย็นใต้) weighing 4 baht — these 5 ingredients, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time. It has properties that cure breathlessness and panting, with truly excellent results.

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Medicine for Adverse Food Reaction while Ill (ผิดสำแดง)

Formula 1: Take ข่อย tree leaves, in whatever quantity is needed, wash clean, pound until fine, mix with rice-rinsing water, strain through a thin white cloth to keep only the liquid. Take the medicine 1 glass at a time. It has properties that cure the adverse reaction from eating forbidden foods while ill, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take either tamarind root or สลอด root, either one will do, wash clean, grind on the inside of a clay pot's lid together with rice-rinsing water until the liquid is suitably thick, about 1 teacup's worth. Take the medicine only once. It has properties that draw out the poison of the adverse reaction and cure it, with truly excellent results.

Formula 3: Take tamarind leaf 1 part, เทพทาโรนาง leaf 1 part, บวบก leaf 1 part — these 3 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, wash clean, pound until fine, mix with rice-rinsing water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time. It has properties that cure the adverse reaction that occurs when a feverish person eats forbidden food and the fever flares up again, with truly excellent results.

Formula 4: Take ivy-gourd (ตำลึง) vine, wash clean, cut into pieces 1 span long, 2-3 pieces, place in a clay pot and smoulder over rice-husk fire until burned to ash, grind fine and mix with rice-rinsing water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time. It has properties that cure the adverse reaction from eating forbidden food, with truly excellent results; it has been used to help many sick people already.

Formula 5: Take albino water-buffalo bone 1 part, the bark of both kinds of ทองหลาง tree (that is, ordinary ทองหลาง bark 1 part and round-leaf ทองหลาง bark 1 part), coconut husk-cup (ขั้วมะพร้าว) 1 part — these 4 ingredients, take 3 baht weight of each, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 cup...

64 ...cup. It has properties that cure the poison of the adverse reaction arising from sexual intercourse (having sex while feverish, or right after just recovering from a fever), with truly excellent results; it has been used with good results before.

Formula 6: Take fresh bitter-gourd leaf 1 part, fresh ผ้ายเทศ leaf 1 part, ระทุ่งแดง root 1 part — these 3 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, wash clean, pound until fine, form into pellets the size of a jujube seed, dry in the sun, keep for use, dissolving in rice-rinsing water. Take 1 teacup at a time. It has properties that draw out every kind of adverse-reaction poison, with truly excellent results.

Formula 7: Take chicken droppings and the rind of สีสุก bamboo — these 2 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, roast over fire until cooked, then grind fine, dissolve in 1 teacup of hot water and take. It has properties that cure the adverse reaction arising from sexual intercourse while feverish, or right after just recovering from a fever, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Jaundice

Formula 1: Take teak wood 1 part, ประดู่ wood 1 part, sappanwood (ฝางเสน) 1 part — these 3 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, chop into small pieces, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, morning and evening, or drink it in place of drinking water. It has properties that cure jaundice, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take pomegranate root 1 handful, wild mango root 1 handful, teak root 1 handful, and lean pork worth 5 baht (for treating jaundice in children) or worth 10 baht (for treating jaundice in adults) — when buying, do not haggle over price, take whatever amount is given for that price. These 4 ingredients, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 cup...

65 ...at a time. While taking this medicine, fatty foods must be avoided absolutely. If, after finishing one potful of the medicine, the jaundice still has not cleared up, boil another potful and take it. The jaundice will certainly be completely cured. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 3: Take the whole ขมิ้นเครือ vine (the whole plant down to the root), 2-3 handfuls, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to 1 part water remaining. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, morning and evening, twice a day. It has properties that cure jaundice with yellow eyes and yellow skin, and cure cirrhosis of the liver caused by heavy drinking; the medicine must be boiled and taken many times over. It is guaranteed that the jaundice will certainly be completely cured. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 4: Take fresh พังพวย (or แพงพวย) plant, 1 handful, wash clean, pound until fine, squeeze out the liquid and mix with 5th-month honey, half a coffee-cup of each. Take once a day for about 15 days; the jaundice, with its yellow eyes and yellow skin, will clear up. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 5: Take the whole โทงเทง plant (the whole plant down to the root), 2 plants, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water, then squeeze out the thick liquid and mix with a suitable amount of brown sugar. Take 1 teacup at a time, 2-3 times a day, for about 10-15 days; the jaundice will clear up. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 6: Take frangipani (ลั่นทม) heartwood 1 part, wild-betel leaf 1 part, หญ้างวงช้าง 1 part — these 3 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, put into a clay pot and boil...

66 ...with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, morning and evening, twice a day. It has properties that cure jaundice, with truly excellent results.

Formula 7: Take fresh tamarind leaves, in whatever quantity is needed, pound until fine, squeeze out the juice and mix with liquor, about half a coffee-cup of liquid. Take it once every day for about 20 days; the symptoms of jaundice will clear up. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 8: Take fresh Chinese-chive plant (the kind eaten with pad-thai noodles), a suitably large amount, wash clean, cut into small pieces, put into a clay pot and boil together with the water of 1 young "fire" coconut (a coconut with yellow husk). Take all of the liquid within 1 day; prepare and take this medicine every day, continuously for 7 days, and the jaundice will clear up. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 9: Take 1 fresh winter melon (ฟักเขียว, peeled and cut into pieces) together with 3 blocks of tofu (the kind sold in the market, in block form — cut into small pieces and soaked in water to soften first). Put these 2 ingredients into a clay pot and boil with a generous amount of water, add rock sugar, enough to make it slightly sweet, boil and simmer until the ingredients are soft and mushy. Take the liquid in place of drinking water. About 1 hour after taking this medicine, the patient's urine will come out white. Take it several times a day, every day, continuously for only 7 days. The jaundice — with symptoms of pain below the navel on the left side, yellow eyes, yellow skin, a bloated belly, a tight/full feeling in the stomach, and urine of deep yellow color — will clear up. It has truly excellent properties; the owner of this formula used it to cure himself completely. Once cured, for 1 month afterward, forbidden foods must not be eaten — that is, strongly flavored food, fatty food — and drinking liquor is absolutely forbidden.

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Medicine for Nasal Polyps (ริดสีดวงจมูก)

Formula 1: Take garlic bulbs, in whatever quantity is needed, slice finely, dry in the sun, mix with a suitable amount of rolling tobacco (the shredded tobacco used for rolling with banana leaf or nipa-palm leaf to smoke) and camphor/borneol (พิมเสน). Roll it with banana leaf, light it and inhale the smoke through the nostril, placing the rolled medicine at one nostril and blocking the other, drawing the smoke in to fumigate the nose for a long while, then switching and inhaling through the other side, alternating back and forth. It has properties that cure nasal polyps and sinus disease, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take หนาด leaf 1 part, lemongrass 1 part, thorn-apple flower (ดอกลำโพง) 1 part, Bermuda grass (หญ้าแพรก) 1 part, "ไม้ชาก" bamboo (bamboo split flat into sheets, used as flooring in place of planks) shredded fine, 1 part, dried beeswax 1 part, albino water-buffalo horn (shredded fine) 1 part — these 7 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, slice finely, mix well together, roll with umbrella paper (the paper used to cover paper umbrellas) and smoke it. It has properties that cure nasal polyps, with truly excellent results.

Formula 3: Take สิงหะโมรา leaves, in whatever quantity is needed, slice finely, dry in the sun, mix with a suitable amount of camphor/borneol. Roll with black ข่อย-bark paper or with banana leaf and smoke it. It has properties that cure nasal polyps in a truly wondrous way; it has been used with good results before.

Formula 4: Take ทองหลาง root 1 part, รางจืด root 1 part, มะกล่ำ root 1 part, ส้มป่อย root 1 part, มะเฟือง root 1 part, cat's-whiskers herb (หญ้าหนวดแมว, also called พยัพเมฆ) 1 part, northern "cool-rice" tuber 1 part — these 7 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, morning, midday, and evening, 3 times a day, for about 7-15 days. It has properties that cure nasal polyps, with truly excellent results.

68 Formula 5: Take northern "cool-rice" tuber 1 part, southern "cool-rice" tuber 1 part, shallot bulb 1 part, garlic bulb 1 part, ว่านหางช้าง 1 part — these 5 ingredients, take 5 baht weight of each, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, morning, midday, and evening, 3 times a day. It has properties that cure both nasal polyps and hemorrhoids of the anus, with truly excellent results.

Formula 6: Take centipede plumes (ขนนกตะขาบ) 1 part, bitter eggplant (มะเขือขื่น) 1 part, palmyra-palm flower 1 part — these 3 ingredients, take equal amounts of each. Prepare as follows: burn the centipede plumes first until charred; scrape only the inner pith of the bitter eggplant and dry it in the sun; dry the palmyra flower in the sun. Take a whole tobacco leaf and roll it together with these 3 ingredients, light it and smoke it through the nose until the whole roll is used up. Prepare and use this medicine for treatment only 3 times, and the nasal polyps will be completely cured. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 7: Take dried garlic root, in whatever quantity is needed, roll with dried banana leaf, smoke it as one smokes a cigarette, letting the smoke of the medicine come out through the nose as much as possible. Prepare and smoke this medicine twice a day, morning and evening, continuously for 7 days. It has properties that cure nasal polyps with truly excellent results; it has been used to cure many people before.

Medicine for Hemorrhoids of the Anus (ริดสีดวงทวารหนัก)

Formula 1: Take nutmeg seed 1 part, mace 1 part, cloves 1 part, long pepper 1 part, "rhinoceros blood" resin (เลือดแรด) 1 part, "cliff-goat blood" resin (เลือดเสี้ยงผา) 1 part, rock salt 1 part — these 7 ingredients, take equal weight of each, grind into powder, keep for use, mixed with boiled water. Take 1 teacup at a time, before the morning and evening meals. It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus — that is, it relieves pain, relieves itching, relieves...

69 ...bleeding, and relieves discharge. It gives truly excellent results. The owner of this formula used it to cure himself, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take fingerroot (กระชาย) weighing 4 baht, sea salt (cooking salt) weighing 6 baht, tamarind pulp weighing 4 baht — these 3 ingredients, pound together, put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to 1 part water remaining. Strain the liquid into a bottle and keep it, to be taken before bed every night. Within 1 month, the hemorrhoids of the anus will be completely cured.

Formula 3: Take the whole ต้นขาสูบ plant and the whole งวงช้าง plant (pulling up the whole plant down to the root) — these 2 ingredients, take equal amounts of each, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water, bring to a rolling boil for a short while, then remove and pour the liquid into a vessel, wait until it is lukewarm, and sit soaking in it for 5 minutes every day. The medicine must be warmed before each use. The hemorrhoids of the anus will gradually clear up.

Formula 4: Take พญามือเหล็ก heartwood, a suitably large amount, chop into small pieces, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid regularly. It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus, with truly excellent results; it has been used with good results many times before.

Formula 5: Take บอระเพ็ด, cut into pieces, 3 teacups' worth, sea salt (cooking salt) 1 teacup, clean water 3 teacups — put into a clay pot and boil down until 1 teacup of liquid remains. Take the medicine all at once. It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus, with truly excellent results.

Formula 6: Take 5 leaves of fragrant ว่านเปราะหอม, pound until...

70 ...fine and mix with a suitable amount of liquor, wrap in thin white cloth, and insert it into the anus; or, alternatively, squeeze out only the liquid and take it by mouth. It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus, with truly excellent results.

Formula 7: Take wild ginger (ไพล) 1 part, black resin (ยาดำ) 1 part, saltpeter (ดินประสิว) 1 part, ดีเกลือ salt 1 part, sea salt (cooking salt) 1 part, tamarind sourness (ส้มมะขามเปียก) 1 part — these 6 ingredients, take 1 baht weight of each, mixed with 1 kaffir lime (boiled until cooked first) — 7 ingredients in all, pound and mix together until fine, form into pills, and take. Before taking, one should recite an incantation of the Five Buddhas (that is, "นะโม พุทธายะ"). It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus, with truly excellent results.

Formula 8: Take สาบเสือ leaves, crush and mix with red lime paste (the red lime paste eaten with betel), use to plug the anus, after bathing, and only before going to bed for 3 nights. It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus (intestinal hemorrhoids), which show symptoms of stomach ache, a gurgling stomach, and passing stool as watery froth — curing them with truly excellent results.

Formula 9: Take red sandalwood 1 part, white sandalwood 1 part, champak (จำปา) heartwood 1 part, ส้มกุ้ง vine 1 part, northern "cool-rice" tuber 1 part, southern "cool-rice" tuber 1 part, white pineapple rhizome 1 part, ลำเจียก root 1 part, alum 1 part, sifted white pepper 1 part, garlic bulb 1 part, shallot bulb 1 part — these 12 ingredients, take equal weight of each, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine 1 teacup at a time, morning, midday, and evening, 3 times a day. Bleeding-type hemorrhoids of the anus will clear up suddenly within 7 days. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 10: Take 3 pieces of กระถิน tree bark, soak...

71 ...in a vessel filled with this liquid, about 15 minutes each time, every day for about 3 days; the hemorrhoidal mass will come loose and fall off. Continue preparing and using this medicine for another 10-15 days, and the hemorrhoids of the anus will be completely cured. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 11: Take the stems and roots of ไม้รวก (a kind of bamboo), a suitably large amount, wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water, add a little sea salt (cooking salt), just enough for a slight salty taste. Take the liquid in place of drinking water, every day for about 15 days. It has properties that cure hemorrhoids of the anus, whether just beginning or long-standing, with truly excellent results; it has been used to cure oneself completely before.

Formula 12: Take ฉฤณา wood of the ตาตุ่ม tree (that is, the heartwood of the ตาตุ่ม tree that has turned black, resembling red sandalwood), chop into small pieces, steep in 1 large bottle of liquor, let it steep for 3-7 days. Take the liquid 1 teacup at a time, before going to bed. Once this medicine is finished, the hemorrhoidal mass will come loose and fall off, and the hemorrhoids of the anus will be completely cured. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 13: Take มะเกลือ-fruit juice (squeezed from the มะเกลือ fruit) 1 part, ขาง oil 1 part, บอระเพ็ด juice (squeezed from the บอระเพ็ด vine) 1 part, genuine honey 1 part — these 4 ingredients, take 1 coffee-cup of each, mix together. Take the liquid 1 teacup at a time, before the morning meal and before bed, twice a day, for a period of about 15 days. Every kind of hemorrhoids of the anus, and nasal polyps, will clear up. It has truly excellent properties.

Formula 14: Take black resin (ยาดำ) 1 part, asafoetida (มหาหิงค์) 1 part, camphor 1 part, cardamom seed 1 part, nutmeg seed 1 part — these 5 ingredients, take 1 baht weight of each, and sifted white pepper weighing 6 baht — 6 ingredients in all, pound into powder, mix with kaffir-lime juice, or alternatively with genuine honey, and roll into pills...

The size of a corn kernel; take 1-2 pills each time, every day. It has the property of curing intestinal hemorrhoids (piles) and relieving stomach ache — very effective indeed.

Formula 15: Take safflower flower 1, ginger 1, long pepper (dipli) 1, sakhan vine 1, dried bael fruit 1, yellow angkab root 1 — these 6 medicines, taking 1 baht weight of each equally. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time, morning and evening, twice a day. It has the property of curing intestinal hemorrhoids — very effective indeed.

Formula 16: Take the peel of nam-wa banana, 3 handfuls, sea salt (cooking salt) 1 handful — these 2 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water, just enough to cover the medicine, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Take the liquid medicine, 1 Chinese teacup each time, before meals, morning and evening. It has the property of curing intestinal hemorrhoids with the symptom of regular stomach ache — very effective indeed; it has been used to treat many cases already.

Formula 17: Take 1-2 fresh white radishes (daikon), wash clean, cut off and discard the stem end, pound until fine, squeeze out 1 tablespoon of juice, mix with 1 tablespoon of pure honey, stir together well. Take before going to bed (at night). If the illness has only just begun, prepare this medicine and take it only 3 times; hemorrhoids of the rectum of the bleeding and prolapsing kind will disappear at once. If it has persisted a long time, prepare this medicine and take it once a day, every day continuously for about 15 days; hemorrhoids of the rectum, the bleeding and prolapsing kind, will be completely cured — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing bleeding from the rectum

Take sappan wood 1, phak-prap grass 1, the whole khlu plant (uproot entirely,

the whole plant down to the root) 1 — these 3 medicines, taking equal amounts of each. Wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time, morning and evening, or at the time bleeding from the rectum occurs. It has the property of curing bleeding from the rectum — very effective indeed.

Medicine for retracting a prolapse

Take the "lion's-milk" plant, 8 baht weight, senīat leaf 4 baht weight, garlic bulb 1 baht weight, castor bean root 1 baht weight, black cumin 1 baht weight, wild turmeric 1 baht weight, borapet (Tinospora) vine 2 salueng weight — these 7 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time, morning and evening. It has the property of a medicine that draws a prolapse that has come out back into its normal place; it is a wound-healing medicine, and also cures children who pass mucus and blood in their stool — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing wind disorder inside the abdomen

Formula 1: Take roasted white pepper 15 baht weight, long pepper (dipli) 20 baht weight, kip-raet fern root 20 baht weight — these 3 medicines. Dry in the sun, pound into powder, mix with pure honey, roll into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take morning and evening. It has the property of curing wind disorder inside the abdomen — very effective indeed.

Formula 2: Take garlic bulb 4 baht weight, roasted white pepper 2 baht weight, long pepper 2 baht weight, Bermuda grass 10 baht weight — these 4 medicines. Dry in the sun, pound into powder, mix with pure honey, roll into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take 1 pill each time, before going to

before bed. It has the property of curing wind disorder inside the abdomen and curing stomach ache — very effective indeed.

Formula 3: Take Asiatic pennywort (bua-bok), 2 parts, with roasted white pepper, 1 part. Pound together until fine, mix with hot water. Take 1 teacup each time, morning and evening. It has the property of curing wind disorder anywhere within the body — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing wind-dizziness with darkened vision and blurred sight

Formula 1: Take koet-so root 1, koet-hua-bua root 1, prao-hom (aromatic ginger) 1, [unclear ingredient] 1, foreign cinnamon 1, Vietnamese cinnamon 1, Thai cinnamon 1, foreign licorice 1, Thai licorice 1 — these 10 medicines. Pound into powder, dissolve in hot water. Take 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing wind-dizziness and faintness, and nourishing the heart — very effective indeed; it has previously been used to good effect in a great many cases.

Formula 2: Take old fingerroot (krachai) tubers, in whatever quantity is needed. Peel and cut into small pieces, dry in the sun, pound into powder, keep in a bottle, dissolve in hot water as needed. Take 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing wind that surges upward, with symptoms of dizziness, causing blurred vision as if about to faint — very effective indeed.

Formula 3: Take foreign cinnamon 1, samun-waeng bark 1, sakhan vine 1, cha-phlu root 1, chet-mun-phloeng (Plumbago) root 1, roasted white pepper 1, long pepper 1 — these 7 medicines, taking equal weight of each. Dry in the sun, pound into powder, mix with honey, roll into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take 1 pill each time. It has the property of curing wind-dizziness of the head — very effective indeed.

Formula 4: Take both kinds of sandalwood, the root of both kinds of kang-pla plant, the root of both kinds of ma-waeng plant, bitter eggplant root 1, khon-tha 1, ya-nang vine 1, sakhan vine 1, cha-phlu 1 — these 11 medicines, taking 1 baht weight of each equally; wild turmeric 5 slices, lime leaves 108 leaves — these 13 medicines altogether. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing wind rising to the upper body, with symptoms of headache, blurred vision, or dizziness of the head; it also cures nervous disorders well. It has previously been used to good effect on many people.

Formula 5: Take kum-tree leaf 1, galangal stem 1, cassumunar ginger (phlai) 1, shallot 1, white saltpetre 1 — these 5 medicines, taking a suitable amount of each. Pound until fine, use to poultice both big toes. Keep the poultice on all day, applying fresh once a day, for a period of 3 days. Wind rising to the upper body, with symptoms of headache and severe aching at the back of the neck, will be cured — very effective indeed.

Formula 6: Take ginger 1, cassumunar ginger 1, cloves 1 — these 3 medicines, taking 4 baht weight of each equally. Roast the cloves over fire until cooked first. Pound all 3 medicines until fine, wrap in thin white cloth and soak in boiled water; steep for 3 days. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing wind-dizziness with darkened vision — very effective indeed.

Formula 7: Take 1 hen's egg (from a hen not fertilized by a rooster). Pierce it and pour the contents into a container, keeping the shell. Fill the emptied eggshell with sea salt (cooking salt), then pour the salt out and set aside. Fill the eggshell with roasted white pepper, then pour it out and set aside. Grind the salt and roasted white pepper together until fine, mix the ground salt and pepper into the egg contents, stir together well, and fry the egg mixture until cooked. Eat it (plain, with nothing else) entirely, at the time

the sun is about to set, specifically on the dark-moon day (that is, the 14th night of the waning moon of a short month). It has the property of curing wind-dizziness, with symptoms causing an inability to keep one's balance, everything spinning around — very effective indeed. It has previously been used to cure oneself completely.

Medicine for curing wind with stabbing pain and faintness

Take the ngueak-pla-mo plant (Acanthus) 2 handfuls, nut-grass tuber, 1 kilogram weight, roasted white pepper 2 baht (by cost), long pepper 5 baht (by cost) — (for these 2 medicines, buy 2-5 baht worth, whatever amount that gives is what is used) — garlic bulb, 1 curry-bowlful. These 5 medicines: pound into powder, mix with pure honey, roll into pills. Take before going to bed. It has the property of curing wind with stabbing pain and a tight, bloated stomach, faintness as if about to fall unconscious; it cures anemia, is an appetite-stimulating medicine, and a longevity tonic. It has previously been used to good effect many times.

Medicine for curing wind with stabbing chest pain

Take 1 garlic bulb, peel off the skin, then eat it together with pure honey. It has the property of being a wind-expelling medicine, for the symptom of stabbing pain and tightness in the chest — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing wind that comes out through the ear

Take borapet vine 2 salueng weight, red phak-phaeo (water pepper) 2 salueng weight, long pepper 2 salueng weight, nut-grass tuber 2 salueng weight, krung-khema (Cyclea) 2 salueng weight, philangkasa (Ardisia) 2 baht weight, bael leaf 2 baht weight, salot (croton) leaf 2 baht weight — these 8 medicines. Dry in the sun, pound into powder, dissolve in boiled water, roll into pills the size of a mung bean, keep for taking

9-10 pills each time. It has the property of curing wind coming out through the ear; it has previously cured many cases, with very good effect indeed.

Medicine for curing wind mixed with nosebleed

Take 3 limes, cassumunar ginger 4 baht weight (steam these 2 medicines until cooked), white saltpetre 1 baht weight — these 3 medicines. Pound until fine, mix with tamarind water, blend together thoroughly, then use to poultice the whole head. It has the property of curing wind mixed with nosebleed, which causes the eyes to spin, become clouded, dim, or turn white, causes heaviness of the head, unsteady walking, aching in the eye sockets, and streaking pain across the face and scalp, because of the harm caused by wind combined with nosebleed — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing kan-sing-kli wind seizing the heart

Take the bark of the phikun tree 1 handful, garlic 7 cloves, roasted white pepper 7 seeds, long pepper 1 flower, fresh ginger 1 slice — these 5 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine using a spoon to pour into the patient's mouth, about 3-5 tablespoons. It has the property of curing kan-sing-kli wind seizing the heart, which causes deafness so the patient cannot hear when called, the eyes to remain fixed without blinking, a state approaching coma, arising from fever compounded with blood or wind. It has previously been used to good effect many times — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing hua-luk wind

Take galangal 5 slices, ma-ka leaf 1 handful, sea salt (cooking salt) 1 handful — these 3 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing

hua-luk wind, which brings on dizziness and faintness from the very start of pregnancy — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing wind paralysis

Formula 1: Take 30 garlic bulbs (split each bulb into 2 pieces), dry in the sun (weigh however much it comes to). Take dried ginger 1, nut-grass tuber 1, land caltrop 1 — these 3 medicines, taking a weight equal to the weight of the garlic. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine in place of tea. It has the property of curing wind paralysis, with symptoms of dead hands and dead feet. It has previously cured many cases, with very good effect indeed.

Formula 2: Take the whole starfruit plant (roots and all), 1 baht weight, ron-thong rhizome 2 salueng weight, nutmeg 2 salueng weight, black cumin 4 baht weight, nera-phusi root 1 salueng weight, rayom (Rauvolfia) 1 baht weight, kip-raet fern root 1 baht weight, bitter-gourd leaf and phimsen leaf, in weight equal to all the other medicines together (that is, 4 baht 1 salueng weight of each). Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water and take the liquid medicine; or pound into powder, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills, which may also be taken. It has the property of curing paresis and wind paralysis — very effective indeed.

Formula 3: Take the whole phak-sian-phi plant (uprooted entirely, roots and all), 1 kilogram weight, hanat leaf 2 baht weight, thao-wan-priang vine 1 tamlueng weight, khi-lek heartwood 2 baht weight, aloes 1-2 baht weight, golden-shower-tree pods 3 pods — these 6 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time, before meals morning and evening, twice a day; boil and take about 3-4 potfuls in total. It has the property of curing wind paralysis — very effective indeed.

Formula 4: Take black galangal 2 baht weight, soap-berry seed 3 baht weight, python bone 4 baht weight, samae-san heartwood 3 pieces — these 4 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with 4 parts water, simmer down to leave 1 part water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing wind paralysis with symptoms of a stiff tongue, a crooked mouth, and crossed eyes — very effective indeed.

Formula 5: Take alum 1, rock salt 1, black galangal 1, sea salt (cooking salt) 1 — these 4 medicines, taking 4 baht weight of each equally; limes, 33 fruits — these 6 medicines altogether. Pound until fine, roll into pills. Take before meals, 3 times a day. It has the property of curing wind paralysis with symptoms of dead hands and dead feet — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing whole-body swelling

Take si-suk bamboo root 1, lime root 1, som-boi root 1, kha-ko-nam bark 1, water thong-lang (Erythrina) bark 1 — these 5 medicines, taking 1 baht weight of each equally. Grind into powder, form into sticks and keep. Dissolve with clear lime-water (the red slaked lime eaten with betel) and use to rub on for whole-body swelling — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing a weakened reproductive organ

Take fingerroot 1, wild turmeric 1, roasted white pepper 1, cardamom seed 1, sweet flag 1 — these 5 medicines, taking 3 baht weight of each equally. Dry in the sun, pound into powder, dissolve with pure honey, or coconut sugar, or palm sugar, or cane sugar — any of these will do — roll into pills. Take morning and evening, twice a day. It has the property of restoring a weakened reproductive organ to normal — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing a dead reproductive organ

Take roasted white pepper 1, lime peel 1, fingerroot 1 (these 3 medicines, taking equal amounts of each), 1 cobra (roasted over fire until cooked) — these 4 medicines. Dry in the sun, pound into powder, dissolve with palm sugar. Take twice a day, for only 2 weeks; astonishingly good results will appear. It has previously been used to good effect.

Medicine for curing a weak, powerless knee

Take roasted white pepper 1 baht weight, mature fresh ginger 2 baht weight, lime peel 1 baht weight, Bermuda grass 6 baht weight, alum 6 baht weight — these 5 medicines. Pound until fine, use to poultice the knee. It has the property of curing a weak, powerless knee, curing it completely — very effective indeed.

Medicine for curing men's disease

Formula 1: Take aloes 1, Epsom/Glauber's salt 1, saltpetre 1, alum 1, ma-ka leaf 1, sappan wood 1 — these 6 medicines, taking 2 baht weight of each equally; golden-shower-tree pods 3 pods, the three myrobalans (that is, Thai myrobalan, foreign myrobalan, belleric myrobalan), 3 fruits of each, red thong-yat bark, 3 pieces — these 11 medicines altogether. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing men's disease of the type that enters the joints and produces sores — very effective indeed.

Formula 2: Take lime-tree root 5 baht weight, Indian-gooseberry-tree root 5 baht weight, northern khao-yen tuber (Smilax) 12 baht weight, southern khao-yen tuber 2 baht weight, white buffalo bone 5 baht weight, yellow sulphur 10 baht weight — these 6 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with water

3 parts, simmer down to leave 1 part water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time, morning, midday, and evening, three times a day. It has the property of curing men's disease of the type that enters the joints and produces sores — very effective indeed.

Formula 3: Take Indian-gooseberry twigs 1 handful, tamarind twigs 1 handful, alum 2 baht weight, northern khao-yen tuber 2 baht weight, southern khao-yen tuber 2 baht weight, red sugarcane, a suitable amount — these 6 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine. It has the property of curing men's disease — very effective indeed.

Formula 4: Take 1 whole khoi tree (roots and all), wash clean, chop into small pieces; northern khao-yen tuber and southern khao-yen tuber, taking equal amounts of each. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine in place of tea, every day continuously, until the disease is cured; it will not take long. It has the property of curing men's disease — very effective indeed; it has previously been used to good effect.

Medicine for curing fever overriding menstruation, and menstruation overriding fever

Formula 1: Take 3 coconut husk-caps, put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of clear lime-water (red slaked lime eaten with betel). Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation, and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 2: Take the whole luk-tai-bai plant (Phyllanthus, roots and all), wash clean, pound until fine, mix with liquor, squeeze out only the liquid, about 1 teacup, and take it. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation, and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 3: Take apple-snail shells, in whatever quantity is needed, burn in fire until reduced to ash, grind until fine, mix with clear lime-water (red slaked lime eaten with betel), about 1 teacup of liquid. Take the liquid medicine. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation, and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 4: Take 1 whole luk-tai-bai plant (roots and all), wash clean, together with 1 single-bulb shallot (a shallot whose plant produces only one bulb) — 1 bulb. Put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to leave 1 part water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation, and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed; it has previously been used to good effect.

Formula 5: Take yellow-flowered pradu heartwood 1 handful, together with khi-tai (pitch-pine torch material, used for lighting torches or kindling fire), cut into 5 pieces. Recite over it the katha of the 5 Buddhas (that is, Na Mo Phut Tha Ya, one syllable for each piece). Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 6: Take sappan wood (chopped into small pieces) 1 handful, wild turmeric 5 slices (recite over it the katha of the 5 Buddhas, that is, Na Mo Phut Tha Ya, one syllable for each slice), 1 lime (cut into 5 parts, take 3 parts). Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 7: Take luk-tai-bai plant 1 handful, red shallot 3 bulbs, aromatic prao-hom rhizome 3 slices — these 3 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with 3 glasses of water, simmer down to leave 1 glass. Take the liquid medicine all at once,

and drink it entirely. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed; it has previously been used to save many people's lives.

Formula 8: Take 1 abandoned beehive (no bees remaining in it), land-caltrop grass 1, pomelo peel 1 — these 2 medicines, taking equal amounts of each. Put all 3 medicines into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 9: Take 3 unripe areca nuts (the kind eaten with betel leaf), peel off only the outer skin, black cumin 3 pinches, cockroach droppings 3 pinches — these 3 medicines. Roast over fire until cooked, then grind into powder, mix with liquor 1 part and hot water 1 part. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time, for only 2-3 doses. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 10: Take jasmine root, or double-jasmine root, 1, angkab root 1, thao-yai-mom root 1, red phan-ngu-daeng root or red purslane root 1 — these 4 medicines, taking equal amounts of each. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

Formula 11: Take sappan root, or sappan tree, chopped, 7 slices, red purslane shoots 7 shoots, white deer-antler, chopped, 3 slices, corn cob 1 (broken into 4 pieces, take 3 pieces) — these 4 medicines. Put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to leave 1 part water. Take the liquid medicine, 1 teacup each time. It has the property of curing fever overriding menstruation and menstruation overriding fever — very effective indeed.

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Recipe 12: Take safflower, fragrant vetiver root, rok-fa bark, pheka wood, sweet-tamarind root, star-fruit-tree root — these 6 ingredients, equal parts of each. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction half a glass at a time, morning and evening, before or after meals is fine. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 13: Take tamarind leaf, som-poi leaf, sweet-bamboo leaf, ma-ka leaf, banyan-grass, sappan wood — these 6 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Turmeric-cane, 5 slices. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 14: Take long pepper, dried plai, dried krathue tuber, dried ginger tuber, garlic — these 5 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Roasted white pepper, 1 baht weight. These 6 ingredients pounded into a powder. Dissolve in hot water mixed with a little white sugar, and a little liquor. Take half a coffee-spoon at a time; may be taken at any time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever, and of drawing out poison from spoiled/incompatible food. Very effective indeed — has been used with good results in every case. Taken no more than 3 times, the illness is cured.

Recipe 15: Take sa-khan, black thian-seed, krathue, plai, boraphet vine, cha-phlu leaf, red krathung root — these 7 ingredients, equal parts of each. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time, before meals morning and evening. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

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...bunnak flower, jasmine flower, the five thian-seeds (red thian, white thian, black thian, rice thian, grasshopper-eye thian), kot-so, kot-hua-bua, cardamom pod, clove — these 13 ingredients, equal weight of each (except the black thian, of which a bit more is taken). Pound into a powder. Take with hot water, 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 17: Take both sandalwoods (red sandalwood, white sandalwood), the five thian-seeds (red, white, black, rice, grasshopper-eye thian), samun-waeng bark, cha-lut wood, cinnamon, eaglewood, the "five roots" (ben-cha-kun: cha-phlu root, sa-khan vine, long pepper, ginger tuber, plumbago root), kradom fruit — these 17 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Put into a clay pot and boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 18: Take a handful of fresh ma-ka leaves, 7 fresh sapodilla-jackfruit leaves (inscribed with the heart-formula of the 7 books of the Abhidhamma — namely "Saṅ Vi Thā Pu Ka Ya Pa", one syllable per leaf), turmeric-cane, 5 slices (inscribed with the Five Buddhas — namely "Na Mo Phut Thā Ya", one syllable per slice), the crown of a red shallot bulb, 1, and a pinch of glutinous unhusked rice, 1 pinch — these 5 ingredients, put into a clay pot and boil with 3 parts water, boiling down to 1 part remaining. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 19: Take a reed mat (undyed — the older the better), cut to a size of 1 khuep [span] wide and long. Put into a kettle, add 3 glasses of water, boil down...

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...boiling down to 1 glass remaining. Take the whole glass. Before taking this medicine, have it charmed with [the invocation of] the Five Buddhas (Namo Buddhaya), holding the breath and reciting 3 times. After taking this medicine, lie down covered up so as to sweat. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 20: Take a coconut flower-spathe (not yet opened), cut a piece about 1 khuep [span] long, chop into pieces together with 1 salueng weight of raw rice (about a pinch). Put into a clay pot, boil with 1 dipper of water, boil for a suitable time. Take the decoction half a glass at a time, only 3 times. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 21: Take pradu wood (chopped into small pieces) together with 1 piece of khi-dai tinder-fungus (used as kindling, chopped into pieces). Put into a clay pot, boil with 4 glasses of water, boil down to 1 glass. Drink the whole glass at once. The symptoms of fever overlapping with menstruation, or menstruation overlapping with fever, will vanish at once as if cast off. This has been used with good results before; its properties are very effective indeed.

Recipe 22: Take the whole galangal plant (the whole plant down to the root), together with 3 lemongrass plants. Wash clean, put in a clay pot, boil with half ordinary water, half liquor (that is, 1 part water, 1 part liquor). Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 23: Take the bark of the khai-nao tree, khok-ka-sun plant, sweet flag, nut-grass tuber (crushed to break it) — these 4 ingredients, 1 handful of each. Young bael fruit, 2 baht weight. Put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

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Recipe 24: Take couch-grass root, ya-nang vine root, muean-tree root, banana-tree root, khao-yen tuber (northern kind), khao-yen tuber (southern kind) — these 6 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Put into a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, boil down to 1 part remaining (charm it with [the invocation of] the Five Buddhas — Namo Buddhaya). Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 25: Take khao-yen tuber (northern kind), khao-yen tuber (southern kind), white thian-seed, red thian-seed — these 4 ingredients, equal weight of each — and take one whole holy-basil plant (uprooted whole, down to the root). Wash clean, tie the holy-basil plant with string into 3 knots. Put these 5 ingredients into a clay pot, boil with 3 curry-bowls of water. Take the decoction 1 curry-bowl at a time, morning, midday, and evening. Each time the medicine is drunk, untie one knot on the holy-basil plant. When the medicine has been drunk 3 times and all 3 knots have been untied, pour away the medicine at once. A patient with fever overlapping with menstruation, or menstruation overlapping with fever, will return to normal. This has been used with very good results in many cases; its properties are very effective indeed.

Recipe 26: Take kradom fruit, 1 baht weight; myrobalan fruit (som-thai), 1 baht weight; leaf of the khon-thi-so plant, 1 handful; boraphet vine, 7 finger-length pieces; turmeric-cane, 5 slices; khok-ka-sun, 1 handful; neem twigs (stripped of leaves), 7 twigs — these 7 ingredients, put into a milk tin and boil with a suitable amount of water out in the open air. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time, only once a day. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Even where there is delirium from a high fever-poison, once this medicine is taken the first time, the fever will subside at once. This has been used with very good results in many cases.

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Recipe 27: Take the whole tai-bai-ya-tang-ha plant (uprooted whole, down to the root), 1 handful. Wash clean, tie with bamboo strips into 3 knots. White shallot, 1 bulb, and finger-root, 3 tubers (crushed to break them) — these 3 ingredients, put into a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, boil down to 1 part remaining. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. Each time it is taken, untie one knot; leave a gap of 20 minutes between doses. Take only 3 doses in total. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation and menstruation overlapping with fever, very effective indeed; has been used to cure many cases.

Recipe 28: Take fresh ma-ka leaf, 1 handful, together with Bermuda grass, 1 handful. Wash clean, tie with bamboo strips into 3 knots. Put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water; at the mouth of the pot, inscribe [the invocation of] the Five Buddhas. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time. Each time it is drunk, untie one knot; when it has been drunk 3 times and all 3 knots untied, the symptoms of fever overlapping with menstruation and menstruation overlapping with fever will disappear. Has been used to cure many cases; very effective properties indeed.

Recipe 29: Take a hollow-bottomed coconut shell, 1 piece (split into 4 parts, take 1 part), together with alum (a suitable amount). Put into a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, boil down to 1 part (that is, 3 curry-bowls of water down to 1 curry-bowl). Take the decoction 1 curry-bowl at a time, only 3 doses. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever. Very effective indeed.

Medicine for fever-poison causing a stiff tongue and locked jaw

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...clay (a suitable amount). Squeeze out only the liquid and give it to the patient by prying the mouth open and pouring the medicine in, and use the dregs to rub on the chin and neck. It has the property of curing fever-poison that causes the tongue to stiffen and the jaw to lock, prevents the mouth from opening, and causes fainting. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 2: Take the pith of sapodilla-jackfruit, sa-khan, male ivy-gourd leaf — these 3 ingredients, equal parts of each. Dry in the sun, grind to a powder, mix in clay, form into sticks and keep them. Mix with liquor, pour into the patient's mouth, and rub on the throat. It has the property of curing fever-poison with a stiff tongue and locked jaw, mouth unable to open. Very effective indeed.

Medicine for tetanus

Take red sandalwood, white sandalwood, ginger tuber, galangal tuber, lemongrass root, ya-nang vine root, kot-khema root — these 7 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction half a curry-bowl at a time. It has the property of curing tetanus, with symptoms of convulsions and contortions, rolled-back eyes, and a rigid back. Very effective indeed; has been used to cure many cases.

Great medicines for treating various diseases

#### Medicine for wind-paralysis disease

Recipe 1: Take the five kot-roots (kot-hua-bua, kot-so, kot-khema, kot-chiang, kot-chulalampha), nutmeg seed, mace, cardamom pod, clove, safflower, fragrant vetiver root, cha-lut wood, red sandalwood, white sandalwood, khon-dok wood, cinnamon, nut-grass tuber, chan-kat grass, bullet-wood flower, bunnak flower...[continues on next page]

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...sarapi flower, lotus stamens, pine heartwood, teak heartwood, sak-khi heartwood, sea-samae heartwood, sappan heartwood, samae-san heartwood, black horn, rhinoceros blood, equal parts of each, and the five thian-seeds (red, white, black, rice, grasshopper-eye thian) — these 39 ingredients, take 2 baht weight of each equal. Put into a clay pot, boil with water (enough to cover the medicine). Take the decoction half a glass at a time, twice a day, before meals morning and evening. After taking it for 15 days, change to a newly boiled batch. In total 12 potfuls are to be boiled and taken, to be taken every day continuously for a period of 6 months. It has the property of curing wind-paralysis disease that has lasted no more than 2 years, with symptoms of a dead/numb hand, a crooked mouth, rolled-back eyes and a stiff tongue. Very effective indeed; has been used to cure many cases.

Recipe 2: Take long pepper, asafoetida, white thian-seed, kot-khema, coconut-kot, samun-waeng bark, plumbago root, foreign rayom root, sa-khan, finger-root, cha-phlu root, jing-jo root, sweet flag, gold orpiment, cha-phlu flower — these 15 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Both kinds of coriander seed, 1 baht weight of each. Dried garlic bulb, roasted white pepper, fragrant sandalwood, foreign hatsakhun, black horn — these 5 ingredients, 2 baht weight of each equal. All 22 of these ingredients: dry in the sun, grind to a powder, mix with genuine honey, roll into pills the size of a jujube seed. Take 1 pill at a time, after breakfast and before sleeping. (This boiled medicine, Recipe 1, and this powdered medicine, Recipe 2, must be taken together as a pair — only then will the result be truly striking.) It has the property of curing paralysis and semi-paralysis wind disease that has lasted no more than 2 years. Very effective indeed; has been used to cure many cases. Once cured, be sure without fail to make merit and dedicate it to Khun Banchong Chittiphon as well — please never forget this.

Recipe 3: Take sweet flag, 1 baht weight; sa-khan, 1 baht weight; roasted white pepper, 1 baht weight; asafoetida, 2 baht weight; plumbago root...[continues on next page]

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...2 baht; young bael fruit, 2 baht; foreign myrobalan fruit, 2 baht; kot-so, 2 baht; kot-khema, 2 baht; black thian-seed, 2 baht; plao-noi bark, 2 baht; thon-di (or thong-di) root, 2 baht; kamphaeng-chet-chan vine, 2 baht; black horn, 2 baht; thao-wan-priang vine, 3 baht; dried ginger, 3 baht; som-poi, 3 baht; phak-khun leaf, 3 baht; ma-ka leaf, 3 baht; Glauber's salt, 3 baht; fresh tamarind leaf, 5 baht. These 21 ingredients: put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time, morning, midday, evening — three times a day. If the wind-paralysis has lasted no more than 15 days, boiling and drinking this medicine for no more than 2 pots will certainly cure it. If it has lasted more than 15 days, boil and drink this medicine starting from 3 pots and up, and a cure is guaranteed. Very effective properties indeed. Before boiling this medicine, always light incense and candles, paying homage to the virtues of the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha each time.

#### Medicine for falling-madness wind disease (convulsive/epileptic disease)

Take roasted white pepper, long pepper, nutmeg seed, mace, cardamom, clove, finger-root, rhinoceros-hoof fern, ron-thong fern, pine heartwood, poppy plant, nutmeg-tree wood, red sandalwood, eaglewood, kalampak wood, khon-dok wood, cha-lut wood, cinnamon, mustard seed, licorice, patchouli camphor, camphor, menthol — these 23 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. The five thian-seeds (red, white, black, rice, grasshopper-eye thian), 1 baht weight of each. The five floral parts (bullet-wood flower, bunnak flower, jasmine flower, sarapi flower, lotus stamens), 1 baht weight of each. These 33 ingredients: dry in the sun, grind to a powder, and store tightly sealed. Use 1 coffee-spoon of the medicine, dissolved in hot water, or ginger water, or honey, as the carrying liquid. Has been used to cure many cases.

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#### Medicine for various wind ailments

Recipe 1: Take the five kot-roots (kot-hua-bua, kot-so, kot-khema, kot-chiang, kot-chulalampha), the five thian-seeds (red, white, black, rice, grasshopper-eye thian), nutmeg seed, mace, cardamom, clove, tao-krai-khruea vine, sa-khan, plumbago root, ginger, long pepper, roasted white pepper, samun-waeng bark, myrobalan fruit (som-thai), myrobalan fruit (som-phiphek), licorice, patchouli camphor, camphor, purified borax, coriander seed, nut-grass tuber, kho seed — these 38 ingredients, 2 baht weight of each equal. Menthol, 1 baht weight. These 39 ingredients: dry in the sun, grind to a powder, store in a jar. Dissolve with hot water, or liquor is also fine; take about 1 teacup of the medicine-water at a time. Very effective properties indeed. [Cures] dizziness, vertigo, palpitations, chest tightness, stabbing pains, stomach ache, bloating, diarrhea, various disorders of the bodily elements, and also serves as an appetite stimulant. Very effective indeed.

Recipe 2: Take foreign myrobalan, samun-waeng bark, dried ginger, sweet flag, purified borax, nutmeg seed, mace, cardamom, clove, the five kot-roots (kot-hua-bua, kot-so, kot-khema, kot-chiang, kot-chulalampha), the five thian-seeds (red, white, black, rice, grasshopper-eye thian), bay leaf, tao-krai-khruea root, coriander seed, finger-root, foreign cinnamon, cannabis, luk-en fruit — these 26 ingredients, equal parts of each. As for the long pepper, take an amount equal to all the other ingredients together (that is, take 26 parts). Dry in the sun, grind to a powder, mix with genuine honey, roll into pills the size of a myrobalan fruit, or the size of an Indian gooseberry, or the size of a thumb. Take 1 pill at a time, morning and evening. It has the property of curing all wind ailments. Very effective indeed.

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Recipe 3: Take camphor, patchouli camphor, nutmeg seed, mace, cardamom, clove, kaffir-lime peel, sea salt (cooking salt) (purified), ginger tuber, garlic bulb, thong-dueng root, long pepper — these 12 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Grind into a powder, add 1 baht weight of menthol, grinding it in together. Store tightly in a lidded case. Dissolve this medicine in hot water, about 1 teacup of liquid, and take it to cure every kind of wind ailment. Dissolve this same medicine in lime juice, about 1 teacup of liquid, and take it to cure various poisonings. Very effective properties indeed.

Recipe 4: Take licorice, 2 baht weight; clove, 1 baht; mace, 1 baht; nutmeg seed, 1 baht; ginger, 1 baht; kaeo-klaep, 1 baht; lin-thale, 1 baht; conch shell (roasted over fire), 1 baht; kot-hua-bua, 1 baht; kot-so, 1 baht; patchouli camphor, 1 baht; roasted white pepper, 7 seeds; long pepper, 7 fruits; large gold leaf, 5 sheets. These 14 ingredients: dry in the sun, grind finely to a powder, keep for use dissolved with hot water or liquor, about 1 teacup of liquid. Take it, or use it to blow into the nose of a child having convulsions. Very effective indeed.

Medicine for nerve disease

Take ma-ka leaf, tamarind leaf, som-poi leaf, teak heartwood, sappan heartwood, khilek heartwood, both kinds of samae heartwood, screw-pine root, kham vine, thao-wan-priang vine, boraphet, red sugarcane, plai tuber, galangal tuber, fingerroot tuber, nut-grass tuber, lemongrass, black resin, long pepper, Glauber's salt, alum, roasted white pepper, plumbago — these 24 ingredients, take 4, 6, or 8 baht weight of each equal (if the patient's case is not severe, take 4 baht of each; if the symptoms are severe, take 6 baht of each; if the symptoms...[continues on next page]

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...very severe, take 8 baht of each). Put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 coffee-glass at a time, morning and evening, twice a day. It has the property of curing nerve disease and wind-disease flare-ups that lead to madness. Very effective indeed. If the patient is a woman, add lime, kaffir lime, and star fruit, 4, 6, or 8 fruits of each. Foods that aggravate the condition and are forbidden are: all sweet things, and all strongly rank/fishy foods — such as stingray, shark, salted fish, soft-shell turtle, beef, and so on.

Medicine for stomach disease

Take plumbago, sa-khan, khao-yen tuber (northern kind), khao-yen tuber (southern kind), white sandalwood, red sandalwood, boraphet, kamphaeng-chet-chan vine, long pepper, nut-grass tuber, cha-phlu, lac resin, young bael fruit, chuk-rohini, bark of the mok-man tree, pine heartwood, nerapusi root, the five floral parts (bullet-wood flower, bunnak flower, jasmine flower, sarapi flower, lotus stamens) — these 22 ingredients, 2 salueng weight of each equal. Put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time; may be taken at any time. It has the property of treating stomach disease, curing loss of appetite, and serves as a tonic for the bodily elements. Very effective indeed.

Medicine for fever overlapping with menstruation, and menstruation overlapping with fever

Take roasted white pepper, long pepper, sa-khan, myrobalan fruit (som-thai), phak-khrat leaf, cha-phlu, ma-hat heartwood, teak wood, chik heartwood, rang-tree heartwood, pradu heartwood, cotton seed, couch-grass root, nut-grass tuber, ma-ka leaf, neem twig, holy basil plant — these 17 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Sweet-bamboo nodes, 7 nodes; coconut-shell pieces, 3 pieces. These 19 ingredients: put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. Take the decoction 1 teacup at a time...[continues on next page]

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...before meals, morning and evening, twice a day. It has the property of curing fever overlapping with menstruation, menstruation overlapping with fever, or bleeding caused by childbirth. Very effective indeed.

Medicine for typhoid-type fever (rak-sat)

Take khon-tha root, mueat-khon root, male ya-khat-mon-grass root, ya-nang vine root, thao-yai-mom root, khao-yen tuber (northern kind), khao-yen tuber (southern kind) — these 7 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Teak wood, 3 pieces; pheka-tree bark, 3 pieces; Bermuda grass, 1 handful; ya-pak-khwai grass, ya-khom-bang grass, som-poi leaf, lime leaf, wild bamboo leaf, kaffir lime leaf — these 16 ingredients, put into a clay pot, boil with a suitable amount of water. When boiled down sufficiently, take the pot down and pour off 1 coffee-glass of the liquid to drink. Then cover the mouth of the pot with a clean cloth, have the patient sit facing the pot, letting them be steamed by the vapor of the medicine while also drinking the liquid. About 5-10 minutes per session, for about 7 days. It has the property of curing typhoid-type fever, poison-fever, curing lethargy, alternating fever and chills, aches, and vomiting. Very effective indeed.

Medicine for preserving pregnancy

Take the five kot-roots (kot-hua-bua, kot-so, kot-khema, kot-chiang, kot-chulalampha), the five thian-seeds (red, white, black, rice, grasshopper-eye thian), the five floral parts (bullet-wood flower, bunnak flower, jasmine flower, sarapi flower, lotus stamens), eaglewood, sam-sip root, kalampak wood, white sandalwood, red sandalwood, khon-dok wood, samun-waeng bark, pine heartwood, thep-tha-ro wood, cha-lut wood, sak-khi wood, foreign cinnamon — these 27 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each equal. Put into a clay pot, boil with the water of 2-3 young coconuts...[continues on next page]

...together with young coconut flesh as well, and add plain water again in a suitable amount. Take the medicine-water 1 glass at a time, morning-midday-evening, 3 times a day. It has the properties of a medicine for maintaining pregnancy, and of a medicine to cure a restless, scattered mind — the results are truly excellent. A woman who is 3 months pregnant or more may boil and drink this medicine; she should boil and drink one potful a month until she gives birth.

Medicine for gonorrhea, for both men and women

He instructs: take yaa dam (aloe resin) 1 baht weight, sappan heartwood 1 baht weight, luk-tai-bai (Phyllanthus) plant 1 baht weight, upper "cool-rice" root 1 baht weight, lower "cool-rice" root 1 baht weight, alum 1 baht weight, tao-wanlai-priang vine 1 baht weight, globe-amaranth plant (the white-flowered kind), the whole five parts (the whole plant down to the root) 1 handful, bamboo eyes 3 nodes, lime leaves 108 leaves, pineapple crown shoots 3 shoots, cockle shells (dead ones) 6 shells, cogon grass 1 handful, maka leaves 1 handful. These 14 ingredients are put into a clay pot and boiled with a suitable amount of water. Take the medicine-water 1 curry-bowl at a time, twice a day, morning and evening, for about 7 days, and gonorrhea in both men and women will be cured. Its properties are truly excellent; it has been used to treat many cases with good results.

Medicine for spoiled blood

He instructs: take neem stalks 3 stalks, lime leaves 108 leaves, tao-wanlai-priang vine 1 baht weight, red sandalwood 1 baht weight, white sandalwood 1 baht weight, safflower 1 baht weight, yaa dam (aloe resin) 2 salueng weight, boraphet (Tinospora) 2 salueng weight, fresh ginger 2 salueng weight, maka leaves 5 baht weight, turmeric-ginger 3 slices, krathue (Zingiber zerumbet) 3 slices, phlai (Zingiber cassumunar) 3 slices (these 3 ingredients are consecrated with the names of the Five Buddhas, namely Na Mo Phut Tha Ya). These 13 ingredients altogether are put into a clay pot and boiled with water...

...as appropriate. Take the medicine-water 1 teacup at a time, morning-midday-evening, 3 times a day. Its properties cure spoiled blood and cure bleeding disorders arising from childbirth, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for the 4 elements out of balance

He instructs: take fire-flame bush (Plumbago), young wood-apple fruit, foreign cinnamon, sweet flag, foreign sandalwood, samun-waeng bark, cardamom pods, sakhan stem, roasted white pepper, camphor, dried ginger, long pepper, cloves, foreign clove-nutmeg, khot-hua-wa root, black caraway seed — these 16 ingredients taken 4 baht weight each equally. They may be ground into a powder, using hot water as the vehicle, or put into a clay pot and boiled with a suitable amount of water; take the medicine-water 1 teacup at a time. It is a medicine that restores the 4 elements to normal balance and brings well-being; its properties are truly excellent.

Preserved kaffir-lime medicine

Recipe 1: He instructs: take 33 kaffir limes (halved), red purslane 1 handful, phlai, fingerroot, [a red rhizome], [a white rhizome], nutgrass tuber, tao-wanlai-priang vine, tao-khan vine, krathue rhizome (these 8 ingredients taken 1 baht weight each equally), safflower 2 baht weight, camphor 6 salueng weight, sea salt (added until salty to taste), white lime 1 curry-bowlful. These 12 ingredients are wrapped in thin white cloth and placed in a "dragon" earthenware jar; freshly boiled, still-boiling water is poured into that jar of medicine, in a suitable large amount, then left to stand in the open sun for 3 nights. Take the medicine-water 1 teacup at a time. Its properties cure ailments related to poisoned blood and wind [humor]; truly excellent results.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take 100 kaffir limes (quartered, using 1 quarter of each), saladai [a climbing plant] (cut into pieces of about 1 finger-width each) 1 large bowlful, pineapple vine, sliced...

...into small pieces, 1 large bowlful; boraphet (Tinospora), sliced into small pieces, 1 large bowlful; sea salt (the kind used in curries) 1 large bowlful; white lime 1 handful. These 6 ingredients are placed in a "dragon" earthenware jar; water that has been freshly boiled and is still hot is poured into that jar of medicine, in a suitable large amount, then left to stand in the sun for 7 days. Take the medicine-water half a coffee-cup at a time, in the morning and before sleep. Its properties cure leukorrhea (white discharge), the condition of being unable to tolerate the post-partum "staying by the fire," and emaciation with weakness; it also serves as a blood-purifying medicine. Truly excellent results.

Medicine for treating vitiligo (patchy skin discoloration)

He instructs: take fresh curry paste (freshly pounded fine) together with coconut cream, put into a pan and stir-fry the curry paste over the fire (no meat needs to be added yet); bring the part of the body affected by the discoloration (such as the mouth, hands, feet) to be fumed in the rising steam of that curry paste until the curry liquid comes to a boil, then stop the fuming. Do this once a day, for only 7 days running, and discoloration of the mouth, hands, feet and so on will vanish astonishingly quickly. Its properties are truly excellent.

Note: the curry paste is made up of the following ingredients: dried chilies (roasted over the fire until done) 10 pods, lemongrass (finely sliced) 1 stalk, galangal 5 slices, shallots (roasted until done) 5 bulbs, garlic (roasted until done) 10 cloves, roasted white peppercorns 10 grains, kaffir lime leaves (finely sliced) 5 leaves, cloves 3 buds, coriander root (finely sliced) 1 teaspoon, coriander seed 1 teaspoon, cumin seed 1 teaspoon, kaffir lime peel (finely sliced) half a teaspoon, cardamom pod half a teaspoon, nutmeg half a teaspoon, mace half a teaspoon, cinnamon half a teaspoon, sea salt (the kind used in curries) half a teaspoon, shrimp paste half a teaspoon; and fish sauce, palm sugar, green and red spur chilies, and tamarind juice, each taken in a suitable amount.

Section: Medicines for treating urgent ailments

Medicine to draw out the poison of fire-burns and scalds

Recipe 1: He instructs: take lime juice, or vinegar will also do; use it to bathe the area burned by fire or scalded by hot water. It has the property of drawing out the poison and the burning, stinging pain, with truly excellent results — but the wound must still be treated with another medicine afterward.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take leaves of the female sledphangphon plant (leaves are spear-shaped and pointed, the upper surface glossy), pound finely and mix with liquor; use as a poultice on the area burned by fire or scalded by hot water. It has the property of drawing out the poison and the burning, stinging pain, curing it at once — but the wound must still be treated with another medicine afterward.

Medicine for treating fire-burn and scald wounds

Recipe 1: He instructs: take liquor 1 part, coconut oil 1 part, clear lime-water (dissolved red lime paste eaten with betel) 1 part. These 3 ingredients taken in equal amounts, mixed and stirred together well until it takes on a consistency like condensed milk. Use cotton wool wound onto the end of a stick, dip it in the medicine, and apply to the area burned by fire or scalded by hot water; the burning, stinging pain will vanish at once as though lifted away, and it also serves to heal the wound itself.

While stirring the medicine together, and while applying it, one should recite in meditation the verses of the Buddha's virtues, the Dhamma's virtues, and the Sangha's virtues, continuing until the medicine is thoroughly mixed, and until the application is finished. While applying, apply gently — take care not to abrade the skin. This medicine serves both to draw out poison and to heal wounds; its properties are truly excellent.

This medicine should be prepared and kept in large quantities, stored sealed tightly in a jar, so as to be able to help the public promptly when needed.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take coconut oil, rainwater, liquor — these 3 ingredients in equal amounts, mixed with just a little red lime paste (the kind eaten with betel), stirred together until it has a consistency like condensed milk. Apply to the area burned by fire or scalded by hot water. Its properties are truly excellent.

Recipe 3: He instructs: take coconut oil 2 parts, clear lime-water (from red lime paste eaten with betel) 2 parts, yang [dipterocarp] oil 1 part; mix together and stir well until combined. Use cotton wool dipped in the medicine to apply to the area burned by fire or scalded by hot oil. Its properties are truly excellent.

Medicine for cholera-type illness

He instructs: take 1 section of kaffir lime, sliced to take only the peel, together with 20 roasted peppercorns; pound finely, mix with half a teacup of liquor; take it at once while the diarrhea is severe, and the diarrhea will stop immediately. Its properties are truly excellent; it has been drunk with good results before.

Medicine for someone who has eaten poison

He instructs: take simmered fermented-fish sauce (cooked down, straining out only the liquid), and pour it into the mouth of the person who has eaten poison. Within only 3-4 minutes, the poisoned person will vomit up the poison until the stomach is empty; then quickly send the patient on to the hospital.

Medicine for any kind of venomous snakebite

Recipe 1: He instructs: take the whole red holy-basil plant (the whole plant — stem, branches, stalk, leaves and root), wash clean, pound finely, mix with liquor, wring out...

...wringing out only the liquid to give to drink; use the pulp as a poultice on the wound's mouth. Its properties are truly excellent; it has been used to good effect many times.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take the root of the kapok tree, grind it with liquor and give it to the patient to drink; and also pound the kapok root finely, mixed with liquor, and use as a poultice on the wound's mouth. Its properties are truly excellent.

Recipe 3: He instructs: take the whole sledphangphon plant (the whole plant down to the root), pound finely, mix with liquor, wring out only the liquid to drink; use the pulp as a poultice on the wound's mouth — or pound the sledphangphon plant with a further separate portion of liquor and use that as the poultice, which is even better. Its properties are truly excellent; it has been used to good effect many times.

Recipe 4: He instructs: take chun (rolled tobacco smoked wrapped in banana leaf or nipa-palm leaf), knead it in well-water (free of disease-causing germs), wring out only the liquid; pour it into the sick person's mouth, and use the pulp as a poultice on the wound's mouth. Guaranteed to cure completely; it has been used to good effect many times.

Recipe 5: He instructs: take the whole sledphangphon plant (the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, pound finely, mix with fish sauce (the kind used in curries), wring out and filter the liquid through thin white cloth; give the liquid to drink. The patient will vomit up the poison. It has been drunk with truly excellent results many times.

Medicine to stop bleeding

Recipe 1: He instructs: take nutgrass leaves (more or less as needed), pound finely, mix with clear lime-water (from red lime paste eaten with betel), or mix with the red lime paste itself (a suitable amount); use as a poultice covering the whole wound. The bleeding will stop at once. Its properties are truly excellent.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take white granulated sugar, garlic bulb, red lime paste...

(red lime paste eaten with betel), fresh betel leaf, Thai water-morning-glory — these 5 ingredients, each in a suitable amount, pounded together finely, mixed with coconut oil; use as a poultice on the wound's mouth. The bleeding will stop at once. Its properties are truly excellent.

Recipe 3: He instructs: take the whole fresh false-daisy plant (the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, pound finely, mix with clear lime-water (from red lime paste eaten with betel), wring out only the liquid and apply to the wound's mouth. The bleeding will stop at once, and it can also be used to heal the wound itself. Its properties are truly excellent.

Medicine for vomiting sickness

Recipe 1: He instructs: take pomelo peel, shallot bulb-tops, garlic bulb-tops, lemongrass bulb, vinca root, maka-gai fruit — these 6 ingredients in equal amounts, put into a clay pot and boiled; take the medicine-water to drink. Its properties cure vomiting sickness to truly excellent effect.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take genuine honey mixed with monitor-lizard bile; take to drink. Its properties cure vomiting sickness, stopping it at once; it has been used to excellent effect before.

Medicine for children's sang [a traditional childhood ailment] with convulsions

He instructs: take 3 heads of freshwater climbing perch, burn in fire until reduced to ash, grind finely, mix with liquor; use to sweep the inside of the child's throat. Its properties cure children's sang-with-convulsions to truly excellent effect.

Section: Medicines for treating internal stomach ailments

Medicine for diarrhea

Recipe 1: He instructs: take the bark of the teng-rang tree (Shorea), put into a clay pot and boil with clean water; take the medicine-water to drink. Its properties cure diarrhea to truly excellent effect.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take young coconut water, or mature coconut water, either will do (do not put it in a metal vessel); drink until full. The diarrhea will stop at once. Its properties cure diarrhea to truly excellent effect; it has been drunk with good results in every case.

Medicine for stomach ache / stomach pain / griping stomach pain

He instructs: take 1 raw jackfruit seed (with the skin peeled off), with a suitable amount of sea salt; put in the mouth, chew finely, then swallow it down into the stomach. Its properties cure stomach ache, curing it at once, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for food poisoning

He instructs: take lemongrass root (the kind used in curries), root of ya-nang vine, root of sweet-flag; these 3 ingredients ground and mixed with warm water; take the medicine-water to drink. Its properties cure food poisoning caused by an adverse reaction from food already eaten, which brings on stomach ache, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea — curing these to truly excellent effect.

Medicine for dysentery

He instructs: take tamarind pulp, red lime paste (the kind eaten with betel), palm sugar; these 3 ingredients each in a suitable amount. Mix the red lime paste with the palm sugar and form into pills; wrap them in tamarind pulp, sized so they can be swallowed easily. Take 3-5 pills at a time; good results will appear within 30 minutes. The owner of this recipe uses it regularly; its properties are truly excellent.

Medicine for difficulty urinating

(unable to pass urine)

Recipe 1: He instructs: take 1 handful of the root of the water-wa banana tree; wash...

...clean, put into a clay pot and boil with water; drink it in place of water. Its properties cure difficulty urinating, with truly excellent results.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take the whole makhuea-khruea vine (the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil, and drink the liquid. Its properties cure difficulty urinating (inability to pass urine), with truly excellent results.

Medicine for blood in the urine

He instructs: take the whole lemongrass plant (the whole plant down to the root), 3 plants' worth, wash clean, cut into shreds, dry in the sun, roast over fire until golden; steep with hot water and drink in place of tea. Its properties cure fresh blood in the urine with truly excellent results; it has been drunk with good results many times.

Medicine for frequent urination

He instructs: take the whole thong-phan-chang plant (Rhinacanthus — the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, chop into small pieces, dry in the sun, put into a clay pot and boil with water; drink the medicine-water in place of tea. Its properties cure frequent urination and abnormal foul odor, curing them with truly excellent results.

Medicine for stones in the bladder

Recipe 1: He instructs: take 1 handful of the root of the white-flowered globe amaranth, together with 1 handful of the root of a male papaya tree; these 2 ingredients washed clean, chopped into sections, put into a clay pot and boiled with 3 parts water, simmered down to 1 part remaining; drink the medicine-water only once. Its properties cure bladder stones with truly excellent results.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take 7 roots of screw-pine, 7 shoots of reed, and a suitable amount of saltpeter earth; these 3 ingredients put into a clay pot and boiled; drink the...

...medicine-water to drink. Its properties dissolve the stone so it comes loose and passes out. It has been used with truly excellent results.

Medicine for kidney stones and gallstones

Recipe 1: He instructs: take young sugar-palm kernels, eat 3 kernels a day, at exactly 2 o'clock in the afternoon every day, for only 3 days. Its properties cure kidney stones or gallstones, with truly excellent results.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take 1 handful of the whole luk-tai-bai plant (Phyllanthus — the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, pound finely; take 3 teacups of clean water stirred with alum until strongly astringent in taste; combine these two preparations, wring out and drink only the liquid, morning-midday-evening, 1 teacup at a time. Prepare and take this medicine continuously for 3 days.

Second stage: take the whole luk-tai-bai plant (the whole plant down to the root), put into a clay pot and boil; drink the medicine-water 3 times a day, for 3 days straight.

Third stage: take fresh sugarcane juice, drink 1 large bottle a day, for 3 days straight. Its properties cure kidney stones, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for stones (general)

Recipe 1: He instructs: take 1 whole globe-amaranth plant (the whole plant down to the root), 5 shoot-tips of reed, alum 1 baht weight; these 3 ingredients put into a clay pot and boiled with 3 parts water, simmered down to 1 part remaining; drink the medicine-water. Its properties cure stones when they are just beginning to form, with truly excellent results. The owner of this recipe cured himself with it.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take a green pineapple sucker, wash...

...clean, put into a clay pot and boil with water, add a little alum; drink the medicine-water regularly, before sleep or on an empty stomach. Its properties cure stones with truly excellent results.

Recipe 3: He instructs: take fresh ginger root (choosing only rhizome fingers curved like a fishhook), wash clean, slice into thin pieces, put into a clay pot and boil with water; drink the medicine-water continuously in place of tea. Its properties cure stones, curing them with truly excellent results.

Recipe 4: He instructs: take a lump of alum (the size of a jujube seed), stuff it inside a whole cucumber, put it into a clay pot and boil, then eat it (both flesh and liquid). Its properties cure stones with truly excellent results.

Medicine for krasai (a traditional wasting/deficiency ailment)

Recipe 1: He instructs: take rang-daeng charcoal-wood together with the do-mai-ru-lom plant (Elephantopus); these 2 ingredients in equal amounts, sliced and dried in the sun, roasted over fire until golden, steeped with hot water; drink in place of tea. Its properties cure krasai and cure difficulty urinating (urination not flowing freely), with truly excellent results.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take the whole false-daisy plant (the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, pound finely, wring out only the liquid, filter through thin white cloth, mix with about half a glass of hot water, and mix with about 1/3 part genuine honey; drink the medicine-water on the wan-phra [Buddhist observance day] at the end of the month. Its properties cure krasai, serve as a diuretic, and serve as a longevity tonic; it has been used with truly excellent results.

Medicine for kidney disease

Recipe 1: He instructs: take the bark of the red silk-cotton tree, chop into small pieces, roast over fire until golden, steep with hot water; drink in place of tea...

...Its properties cure kidney disease, which brings weakness and lack of strength in the hands and feet; it serves as an outstanding blood-building tonic.

Recipe 2: He instructs: take 15 dried Chinese jujube fruits, 15 whole luk-tai-bai plants (Phyllanthus — the whole plant down to the root, washed clean), 15 chestnuts, and 6 khit (about 600 g) of pork loin meat. These 4 ingredients are put into a clay pot and boiled; drink the medicine-water in place of water, 1 teacup at a time. It may be taken at any time, for a period of 7 days. Its properties cure kidney disease with symptoms of back pain after urinating, turbid yellow urine, and weakness and lack of strength in the hands and feet — curing these with truly excellent results.

Medicine for stomach (gastric) disease

Recipe 1: He instructs: take sea salt (the granular kind), 3 handfuls (belonging to the patient), with the patient taking each handful themselves. While taking each handful, one should hold the breath and recite the following in meditation:

First handful: recite "Phutthang bingchakkhami," take 1 handful of salt.

Second handful: recite "Thammang bingchakkhami," take 1 handful of salt.

Third handful: recite "Sanghang bingchakkhami," take 1 handful of salt.

Take these 3 handfuls of salt and put them into a clay pot, press the lid shut, set it on the fire and calcine it until done (no water needed). Take 3 chicken eggs, crack them and take only the egg white (discarding the yolk), mix it with the well-calcined salt, and store it in a container. Take 1 coffee-spoonful at a time, placing it in the mouth and drinking water after, before breakfast and dinner. Its properties cure stomach disease; it has been used with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take 10 cockle shells and 13 pieces of mud-snail shell, place in a clay pot and burn over fire until reduced to ash, grind fine. Add white chalk clay (dinsophong) worth 2 baht and borneol camphor (phimsen) worth 2 baht (buy 2 baht's worth of each — whatever amount that yields is what you use). Take these 3 ingredients and pound together into a powder, mix with boiled water or ordinary cold water, and take as a drink. Has the property of curing gastric disease; will cure completely within 40 days. Has been used with proven excellent results.

Forbidden aggravating foods: turtle meat, soft-shelled turtle, eel, all kinds of seafood, all kinds of fermented/pickled foods. Absolutely forbidden to eat these.

Medicine for all kinds of wind-illness (lom)

Formula 1: Take Asiatic pennywort (bua bok), 2 parts, with loosened white peppercorns, 1 part. Pound together until fine, mix with hot water, take morning and evening. Has the property of curing all kinds of wind-illness; gets excellent results.

Formula 2: Take 5 lotus blossoms, dried jasmine flowers 5 baht weight, white ixora flowers 5 baht weight, yellow ixora flowers 5 baht weight, red ixora flowers 5 baht weight, red sandalwood 2 baht weight, white sandalwood 2 baht weight — these 7 ingredients, place in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid twice a day, or drink it instead of tea. All kinds of wind-illness will go away. This formula has very excellent properties.

Formula 3: Take white granulated sugar, about 5 tablespoons, mix with rainwater, about half a glass, stir well, and drink; within just 10 minutes the symptoms of a sudden fainting/collapse spell (lom patchuban) will vanish at once. Has been used with much good result.

Medicine for wind-collapse illness (lom san-nibat)

(with symptoms of trembling and delirious raving)

Take sakhan root, cha phlu, samun waeng, nutmeg seed 1, mace (nutmeg flower), bunnak flower — these 6 ingredients, take 5 baht weight of each equally, plus sifted white pepper, 5 baht weight. Take all 7 ingredients, pound together into powder, mix with real honey and roll into pills. May be taken by both women and men, taken at all three times of day (morning, midday, evening). Has very excellent properties. People currently running a fever must absolutely not take it.

Deworming medicine

Formula 1: Take resin-oil (yang oil), 1 spoonful, and turmeric-ginger (khamin oi) juice (take fresh khamin oi, pound fine, squeeze out only the liquid), 1 spoonful. Mix these two together and take before sleeping, or in the early morning before dawn. Has the property of a worm-purging medicine; gets very excellent results. If for a child, reduce the dose by half.

Formula 2: Take fresh makluea fruit (a number equal to the sick child's age), wash clean, pound fine, add ground salt and mix in (until slightly salty), add about 1½ glasses of clean water, stir to mix well, then strain through thin white cloth. Use about 1 glass of the liquid, take before bedtime. When you want the purging to stop, bathe. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for internal heat and thirst

Take the whole luk tai bai plant, 5 of them (take the whole plant down to the root), bring...

...wash clean, place in a clay pot and boil, drink the liquid. Has the property of curing internal heat and thirst; gets exceptionally good results.

Medicine to prevent and cure tetanus (bat tha yak)

Take vinegar, soak cotton wool until saturated, then squeeze it onto the edge of the wound. Cures inflammation, pain, swelling, and convulsive twitching in wounds caused by being pierced by a nail or a sharp object. This formula has very excellent properties.

Medicine for tetanus

Formula 1: Take the whole saap suea plant, 5 of them (take the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, pound fine, mix with liquor, squeeze out only the medicinal liquid and drink it; use the pounded residue to poultice the area of the wound. Has very excellent properties.

Formula 2: Take krachai (fingerroot) roots — not the tuber-head, only the roots — 7 roots, with good-quality shrimp paste (the kind used for curry), 1 (curry-serving) spoonful. Pound together and use to poultice the wound area; has very excellent properties. If the patient has chest tightness, take krachai root, grind with rice-rinse water, about half a teacup, and drink; has the property of curing chest tightness with very excellent results.

Formula 3: Take 1 leaf of som chao, 1 small shallot bulb, pound to a pulp, mix with liquor, squeeze out the liquid and drink; use the residue to poultice the wound. Has very excellent properties; has been used successfully in every case.

Medicine for treating all kinds of spreading scars/keloids

Take nam khang mak dip stem with white chalk clay (dinsophong) (more or less as needed), pound fine, use to poultice the area where the scar is spreading. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for treating breast cancer

Take 14 leaves of wan maha kan, 7 slices of fresh phlai, aloe extract (ya dam) 1 baht weight, borneol camphor (phimsen) 2 salueng weight, camphor (karabun) 2 salueng weight, cooked rice (about the size of a thumb) 1 lump. Pound them together fine, by first pounding the ya dam fine, then adding the fresh phlai, wan maha kan leaves, and cooked rice, and pounding them together. Use to poultice the area of the sore. Has the property of curing the illness completely; can be applied all over the body with very excellent results. Has been used to treat with good results in many cases.

Medicine for children's blistering sores

Take leaves of the teng rang tree, dry in the sun, grind fine, mix with potassium-permanganate water. Apply to the area of the blistered sore. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for treating "collapsing riverbank" sores (talling phang)

Take 1 faeng fruit (smaller in size than a fak gourd), peel it, then cut into pieces about 1 fingerbreadth each, 4 pieces. Yellow sulfur 4 baht weight, borneol camphor (phimsen) 1 baht weight, camphor (karabun) 1 baht weight, 1 lump of palm sugar (about the size of a duck egg). Place in a clay pot: lay the 4 pieces of faeng flesh at the bottom, grind the yellow sulfur fine and sprinkle onto the faeng pieces, then sprinkle the borneol camphor, camphor, and palm sugar onto the faeng pieces as well. Add clean water (as appropriate) into the clay pot, boil and simmer until the faeng flesh is soft. Drink the liquid instead of water. Has the property of curing rotting, festering sores with swelling, pain, and discharge of lymph fluid — sores that fester until the flesh falls away, like a collapsing riverbank. Gets very excellent results; has been used to cure many cases.

Medicine for ordinary dog-bite wounds

Take dried banana leaf (of the kluai nam wa variety), place it in a clean clay pot, cover with a lid, set on the fire until the banana leaf burns down to charred ash; also alum. Take these 2 ingredients in equal weight, grind fine, strain through thin white cloth. Sprinkle onto the wound where bitten by a dog (before applying, the wound should first be washed with potassium-permanganate water). Bind with clean cloth until the wound fully heals. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine to poultice flesh together (for wound closure)

Take glutinous rice grains with hua prohom (a fragrant rhizome) (more or less as needed), pound together fine, use to poultice the wound area. Has the property of drawing the flesh together so the wound heals normally without delay; gets very excellent good results.

Medicine for treating itching around the ankle

Use gasoline (naphtha), apply to the area with itchy rash, pain and swelling around the ankle, apply repeatedly several times. Has the property of a medicine that kills the parasites, so the disease disappears. Gets very excellent results.

Category: Medicines for treating diseases inside the mouth

Medicine for toothache

Take sea salt, alum, camphor (karabun) — these 3 ingredients, equal amounts of each. First calcine the salt and alum until done, then mix all 3 ingredients together and grind fine. Use cotton wool dipped in the medicine and press onto the area of the toothache. The toothache will suddenly vanish within 10 minutes. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for scurvy

(bleeding along the gums)

Formula 1: Take cattle horn, or buffalo horn is also fine, burn to ash; sappanwood extract (fang sen); pure honey. Grind the sappanwood with the honey, then mix in the cattle-horn or buffalo-horn ash and stir until well combined. Use cotton wool dipped in the liquid and press against the gum line. Has very excellent properties; has been used with much good result.

Formula 2: Take phak waen leaf, human hair, and bark of the tako na tree — these 3 ingredients in equal amounts, roast over fire until crisp, then pound to a powder, mix with liquor, and use to pack onto the teeth. Has the property of curing scurvy (bleeding along the gums); gets very excellent results.

Medicine to prevent tooth decay

Formula 1: Take sea salt (cooking salt), place it into the hole of a decayed tooth (already drilled or hollowed out beforehand). Wrap clean cloth over the opening to seal it tightly. Leave for about one day, then remove the salt. Hold it in the mouth each night before sleep. Has the property of preventing tooth decay very well; has been used with good results.

Formula 2: Take bark of the khoi tree, 3 pieces (1 piece scraped upward, 2 pieces scraped downward), bark of the makham thet tree, 3 pieces (1 piece scraped upward, 2 pieces scraped downward), salat dai plant (a suitable amount), pound fine. Then, while holding the breath, take 3 pinches (using 3 fingers — thumb, index, and middle finger); sea salt, 3 pinches (holding the breath for each of 3 pinches); soil, 3 pinches (holding the breath for each of 3 pinches). Put into a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to 1 part remaining. Hold in the mouth for about 5 minutes each time, before sleeping...

...before washing the face in the morning, and after eating meals. Has the property of both preventing and curing tooth decay; has been used with good results.

Medicine for swollen, pus-filled gums

Take lime, 1 handful, and sulfur, 1 baht weight, place in a clay pot and boil. Use the liquid to hold in the mouth. Has the property of curing swollen, pus-filled gums; gets very excellent results.

Medicine for sore throat

Take 1 sifted peppercorn, 1 long-pepper flower (di pli), 3 cloves of garlic, the zest of 1 lime (peel off only the skin). Pound fine, mix with lime juice, stir until well combined, and roll into pills. Hold in the mouth, or swab the throat with it, just 2-3 times. Has the property of curing sore throat, gets very excellent results.

Category: Medicines for treating skin diseases

Medicine for herpes, shingles, and "dog-paw" ringworm patches

Formula 1: Take fresh bottle-gourd leaves with dried cow dung (as much as needed). These 2 ingredients in equal amount, pound together fine, use to poultice the area affected by herpes, shingles, or "dog-paw" ringworm. Apply once a day for about 3 days; the disease will heal. Has very excellent properties.

Formula 2: Take an old fishing net or scoop net (worn out and no longer used), burn it inside a freshly-scraped coconut shell until reduced to ash, mix with gutter water, stir well, then use a chicken feather or cotton wool wrapped around the end of a stick, dip in the medicine and apply to the area affected by herpes, shingles, "dog-paw" ringworm, or spreading fire-rash (fai lam thung). Apply only 2-3 times. Has very excellent properties; has been used to treat many cases with good results.

Formula 3: Take the shell of a (dead) apple snail, grind it against a razor-honing stone with rainwater, grind until the water thickens, then apply to the area affected by herpes or shingles. Apply just once; the disease will heal. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for venomous animal bites and stings

Take 1 wedge of fresh lime, dip it into monosodium glutamate powder (any brand is fine), squeeze the lime onto the edge of the wound bitten or stung by a venomous animal. Has the property of curing swelling, pain, stinging, and burning; gets very excellent results.

Medicine for treating various itchy rashes

Take phlai rhizome head, sea salt, betel leaf, camphor (karabun), takhian-wood resin, red lime paste (the kind eaten with betel nut), coconut oil, sesame oil — these 8 ingredients, equal weight of each. Put together in one vessel, set on the fire and simmer to a boil. Use the liquid to apply on the itchy rash; the itching will stop within 5 minutes. Has the property of both relieving itching and being a wound-binding medicine that speeds up healing. Has been used with very excellent results.

Medicine for treating scabies

Take ripe (not overripe) namwa bananas, peel and mix with yellow sulfur powder, dip in rice-flour batter, fry in coconut oil (the same way as frying "kluai khaek" banana fritters). Eat it, and also use the coconut oil the bananas were fried in to apply to the area affected by scabies. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for treating jock itch (sang khang)

Take thorn-apple seeds (roasted then ground fine), coarse-cut tobacco (rolled with banana leaf or jak-palm leaf for smoking), coconut cream. Take the ingredients...

Mix these 3 ingredients together well, then squeeze out only the liquid, and use it to apply to the area affected by jock itch. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for treating warts

Take fresh sesame leaves, pound fine, mix with urine (free of infection), use to poultice the head of the wart (before poulticing, first pare down the head of the wart with a sharp knife that has been flame-sterilized). Has very excellent properties.

Category: Medicines for treating various types of fever

Fever medicine

Formula 1: Take bo raphet vine, 1 khuep length (measured by the patient's own hand-span), pound fine, mix with urine (free of infection), squeeze out only the liquid, and drink. Has the property of curing fever, headache, and a hot body; gets very excellent results.

Formula 2: Take red sandalwood, white sandalwood, kradom fruit, golden-shower-tree fruit, fragrant vetiver root, fragrant cha lut, mango root, lime root, nutgrass tuber, cha phlu root, bo raphet, thao yai mom root, tamlueng vine, kaeo-tree root — these 14 ingredients, equal amounts of each. Put into a clay pot and boil, drink the liquid. Has the property of curing fever with very good, excellent results.

Medicine for "head-wind" seasonal fever

Take fresh maka leaves, Bermuda grass, sea salt — these 3 ingredients, equal weight of each. Put into a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to 1 part remaining. Drink the liquid to cure "head-wind" fever (that is, fever arising from the change of season, from the rainy season transitioning into the cold season). Has been used to treat with much good result.

Medicine for shoulder fever (khai ba)

Take ruak-bamboo root, ya-nang vine root, nutgrass tuber, maha ra-ngap root — these 4 ingredients, equal amounts of each. Put into a clay pot and boil, drink the liquid. Has the property of curing shoulder fever, with very excellent results.

Medicine for chronic shaking/recurring fever

Take 6 bodhi-tree leaves, invoke them with the 5 Buddha names (that is: Na Mo Phut Tha Ya, one syllable per leaf). Put into a clay pot, boil with 3 glasses of water. Drink the liquid, 1 glass at a time, only 3 doses; the disease will heal. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for fever complicated by menstruation, or menstruation complicated by fever

Formula 1: Take 3 coconut "topknots" (the fibrous tuft at the coconut's stem end), put into a clay pot, boil with clear lime-water (the red lime-paste solution eaten with betel nut). Drink the liquid. Has the property of curing fever-with-menstruation or menstruation-with-fever; gets very excellent results.

Formula 2: Take the whole luk tai bai plant, 5 of them (take the whole plant down to the root), wash clean, pound fine, mix with liquor, squeeze out only the liquid and drink. Has the property of curing fever-with-menstruation or menstruation-with-fever; gets very excellent results.

Medicine for insomnia

Take young matoom (bael) fruit, bo raphet, sifted white pepper, khamin oi (turmeric-ginger) — these 4 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each, equal. Pound fine, mix with real honey, and take. Has the property of inducing deep, sound sleep. Has been used to cure many cases, with very excellent good results.

Medicine for high blood pressure

Formula 1: Take the mistletoe growing on a mamuang kalon (mango) tree (take the whole plant...

...down to the root. Chop into shreds, dry in the sun, roast over the fire until yellowed, brew with hot water, and drink instead of tea. Has the property of curing high blood pressure, bringing it down to normal; gets excellent results.

Formula 2: Take the mistletoe growing on a mamuang kaeo (mango) tree (take the whole plant down to the root), with ya khao yen nuea (a root medicine), these 2 ingredients each in a suitable amount, put into a clay pot and boil. Drink the liquid instead of drinking water. Has the property of curing high blood pressure, bringing it down to normal, with very good, excellent results.

Medicine for diabetes and high blood pressure

Take inthanin nam (queen's crape myrtle) leaves, put into a clay pot and boil, 3 leaves at a time, drink the liquid regularly every day. Within just a few days, diabetes and high blood pressure will disappear. Has very excellent properties.

Medicine for asthma with wheezing/breathlessness

Formula 1: Take smoking tobacco (coarse-cut tobacco rolled in banana leaf or jak-palm leaf for smoking) with white lime paste — these 2 ingredients, equal amounts of each — plus 2-3 chicken eggs (crack and use only the egg white). Mix all 3 ingredients together well, then poultice onto the middle of the back, at the small of the back/sacral area. Once this poultice is applied, vomiting will occur, coming out white, then yellow, then green, then pale green, in sequence. The "nest" [root of the illness] will come out together with the pale-green vomit. Once the "asthma nest" has come out, quickly remove the poultice at once.

While the vomiting is occurring, drink plenty of young coconut water, or boil ya sai grass and drink about 1 glass of the liquid. A patient who...

...has a weak constitution should absolutely not take this medicine. This formula has the property of curing asthma completely, with very excellent results.

Formula 2: Take a fresh chicken egg (of the fertilized kind, capable of hatching) with vinegar (the distilled kind). Mix them: crack 1 fresh egg into a glass, add 2 tablespoons of vinegar, mix in and stir until well combined. Drink before breakfast every day for 15 days; symptoms of asthma and wheezing will lessen. If severe, drink before breakfast and before the evening meal, twice a day every day, for 15 days; the wheezing will improve greatly. After that, prepare and drink this medicine before breakfast every day, once a day, for 15 days — totaling 45 days — and the asthma will be completely cured. This formula has very excellent properties; has been used to treat with much good result.

Medicine for hemorrhoids

Take nutmeg seed, mace (nutmeg flower), cloves, long pepper (di pli), "rhinoceros blood" resin, leuat liang pha resin — these 6 ingredients, equal weight of each. Grind to a powder and keep it; take by mixing with boiled water, before breakfast and before the evening meal. Has the property of curing hemorrhoids — that is, relieving pain, relieving itching, stopping bleeding, and stopping prolapse. The owner of this formula used it to treat himself with very excellent good results.

Medicine for cancer

Formula 1: Take lamphong ka salak seeds (mature pods), krabao seeds (mature pods, use only the inner kernel), khamin oi (turmeric-ginger), takhian-tree resin — these 4 ingredients, equal amounts of each. Dry in the sun, grind to a powder, fumigate with sesame oil over a rice-husk-fired stove (using rice husk as fuel). Use to apply topically to treat the disease...

...cancer of the outer skin, or applied to treat boils and abscess sores of every kind; its properties are truly excellent.

Formula 2: Take pandanus root, pineapple crown, starfruit-tree root, khao-yen-nuea tuber, khao-yen-tai tuber, and husked jasmine rice — 6 ingredients in equal amounts. Put them in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid. It has the property of curing cancer in patients suffering from bloating who cannot eat, a condition that has persisted a long time. After taking this medicine the illness will be cured. It has been used with very good results many times.

Medicine to Cure Cancer of the Womb

Take khao-yen-nuea, khao-yen-tai, ton-non-tai-yak (a vine), cat's-milk root, and white canna tuber — 5 ingredients, 4 baht weight of each, equal amounts — plus a handful of sea salt. Put them in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid. It has the property of curing cancer of the womb, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Tightness of the Abdominal Sinews, Forming Hardened Lumps

Take raw black glutinous rice together with roasted, sifted peppercorns — 2 ingredients, 1 bottle-cap measure of each (a pinch of each) — pound finely and mix with pure honey. Take only on Saturdays, before bed. It has the property of curing tightness and stiffness of the abdominal sinews and relieving pain, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Back Pain and Lower-Back Pain

Formula 1: Take the mistletoe growing on the rain tree (จามจุรี) and dried rain-tree leaves — 2 ingredients — roast both over the fire until well dried, then put them in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid. It has the property of curing back pain and lower-back pain, with truly excellent results. Has been used with good results before.

Formula 2: Take the whole 'ya luuk tai bai' plant (Phyllanthus, 'stonebreaker'), root included, wash clean, chop into pieces, sun-dry, then put in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid in place of tea. It has the property of curing back pain, lower-back pain, and kidney disease, with truly excellent results.

Medicine to Reduce Fat in the Body

Take all five parts of the nut-grass plant (root included), in whatever amount is needed, wash clean, cut into small pieces, sun-dry until thoroughly dried, and drink in place of tea. It has the property of helping to reduce fat in the body, with excellent results. Has been used with good results before.

Medicine for Women's Hemorrhaging

Formula 1: Take 3 husks from ripe (dried) coconuts, put them in a clay pot to boil with 3 parts water, simmer down to 1 part remaining, and drink the liquid. It has the property of stopping women's hemorrhaging, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take khi-lek leaves (as much as needed), pound finely, mix with liquor, press out only the liquid, and drink it. It has the property of curing women's hemorrhaging, with excellent results.

Formula 3: Take 1 coffee-spoon of turmeric powder, mix with 1 teacup of boiled water, and drink just once only. It has the property of stopping women's hemorrhaging immediately, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Fat Blockage in the Blood Vessels

Take single-clove garlic (bulbs with no separate cloves, one bulb only) — 20 bulbs — peel them and put in a jar or urn, add honey...

...top up with pure honey to cover the garlic, seal the jar or urn tightly, and let it steep for 7 days. Then take it before bed, one bulb at a time together with the liquid, for 7 consecutive days. It has the property of curing fat blockage in the blood vessels, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Cattle and Buffalo with Mouth Rot and Foot Rot

Take all five parts of the periwinkle plant (แพงพวย, root included), one large handful, wash clean, pound finely, press out only the liquid, mix with 1 lump of shrimp paste (the kind used for curry, about the size of a thumb) and add pure honey to taste. If the liquid is too thick, add clean water, about 1 teacup or about half a glass. Use this medicine to pour into the mouth of the cattle or buffalo. If the cattle or buffalo has rotten, decaying feet, take all five parts of the periwinkle plant, pound finely, mix with shrimp paste and pure honey to taste, and poultice it on the area of the rotten sore. This formula has been used with very good results before; its properties are truly excellent.

Longevity Medicine

Formula 1: Take all five parts of the sea-holly plant (เหงือกปลาหมอ, root included), wash clean, sun-dry, pound finely — 2 parts — together with 1 part roasted, sifted peppercorns. Mix and grind into powder, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills the size of jujube seeds. Take after breakfast and dinner. It has the property of curing wind-illness, curing hoarseness, improving appetite, promoting smooth circulation of blood and wind, and prolonging life, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take sea holly, 2 kg, nut-grass tubers, 2 kg, roasted sifted peppercorns equal in weight to all the other medicines combined (i.e. 4 kg), sun-dry until...

...cover the medicine, let it steep for 3 days, then roll into pills. Take them morning and evening every day as a regular practice. It has the property of promoting good health, and a long life,

Medicine to Make the Teeth Durable

Take one's own urine, free of disease, and hold it in the mouth upon waking each morning, once a day, for just 3 days — this will make the teeth durable for life.

Medicine for Gum Swelling that Has Turned to Pus

Take the bark of the 'red wood' tree together with sea salt, put in a clay pot and boil; hold the liquid in the mouth for only half [a dose], and it will completely cure gum swelling that has turned to pus.

Medicine for Teeth with Pyorrhea

Take sea salt, camphor, and the growing tips of the เถาวัลย์ยอดด้วน vine — 3 ingredients, suitable amounts of each — pound finely and poultice on the affected area; this will cure pyorrhea and toothache of every kind.

To Cure Bad Breath

Take fresh guava leaves and chew them for a moment, then spit them out; rinse the mouth with water. The bad smell inside the mouth will vanish as if plucked away.

Medicine for Poison from Animal Bites and Stings

(Centipedes, spiders, scorpions) Take fresh papaya leaves, pound finely, mix with red lime paste and poultice on the area that was bitten or stung. The stinging, burning pain will disappear within 5 minutes — very good.

Medicine for Stinging, Burning Pain from Chili Getting in the Eye

Take one's own urine and pour it on the shin, holding to the old belief that if chili gets in...

...if chili gets in the right eye, pour the urine on the left shin; if chili gets in the left eye, pour it on the right shin. The stinging, burning pain will vanish immediately; then wash the eye further with clean water.

Medicine for Tinea Versicolor (เกลื้อน)

Take fresh bullet-wood (พิกุล) leaves with sulfur, pound and mix finely, wrap in thin white cloth, dip in liquor, and apply to the affected patch. It will heal in just 3 days, even if the condition has been present for a long time.

Medicine for Ringworm (กลาก)

Take ทองพันชั่ง (Rhinacanthus) leaves, pound finely, mix with kerosene, and apply to the affected patch once a day. In just 3 days the ringworm will vanish as if plucked away.

Medicine for Sore Throat, "Ghost in the Throat"

Take 2 parts burnt softshell-turtle shell and 1 part rock sugar, grind finely, mix with a suitable amount of borneol camphor. Use a drinking straw dipped in the medicine to blow it into the patient's throat. The sore throat will be completely cured.

Medicine for Warts

Take fresh sesame leaves, pound finely, mix with urine, and poultice on the wart. Before applying the poultice, first slice the wart with a sharp knife. Very good properties.

Medicine for the "Scrofula Ghost" ("String-of-Beads Ghost", "Ghost in the Throat")

Take the young roots of the Salvadora tree (แจง), burn until charred to ash, mix with borneol camphor, grind finely, put into a drinking straw and blow into the throat. Very good for curing "ghost in the throat" illness.

Medicine to Draw Out the Poison of Boils and Abscesses

Take 1 nipa-palm blossom together with red lime paste the size of the tip of the little finger...

...1 lump, pound finely, mix with liquor and poultice on the head of the boil; it will draw out the poison very well.

Medicine to Poultice a Boil on the Palm of the Hand

Take Rhinacanthus ('เสลดพังพอน') leaves, pound finely, mix with liquor, and poultice on the head of the boil. Gives truly excellent results.

Medicine for Vomiting

Take pure honey together with 'tang-leuam,' mix and take by mouth. Cures vomiting with excellent results.

Medicine for Diarrhea

Take a sharp knife and shave the bark of a mango tree — one shaving upward, one shaving downward — pound them until slightly crushed, coat evenly with ground salt, roast over the fire until cooked to a golden color, then soak in clear lime water. Drink the liquid. Very good for curing diarrhea and loose bowels.

Laxative Medicine

Take 3 kaffir limes, scoop out all the flesh inside, fill one full with roasted sifted peppercorns, fill one full with garlic, and fill one full with sea salt. Steam over the fire until cooked. Take 2 baht weight of the pounded medicine, pound together finely, roll into pills, and take 1-2 pills before bed. Very good as a laxative.

Medicine to Nourish the Body's Elements (ธาตุ)

Take camphor, fine-grade crystal borneol camphor, cloves, and kaffir-lime peel sliced thin and dried until yellow — 4 ingredients, 4 baht weight of each, equal amounts. Wrap in thin white cloth, place in a jar, add a suitable amount of hot boiled water, and steep for 3-4 days. Use to take...

...take after breakfast and dinner. Cures bloating, flatulence, and colicky pain very well.

Medicine for Tightness of the Abdominal Sinews, Forming Hardened Lumps

Take raw black glutinous rice with roasted sifted peppercorns, 1 bottle-cap measure of each, pound finely, mix with pure honey. Take only on Saturdays before bed. Cures tightness of the abdominal sinews and hardened lumps, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Severe Diarrhea

Take 1 wedge of kaffir lime, using only the peel, and 20 grains of roasted sifted peppercorns, pound finely, mix with half a teacup of liquor and drink. Severe diarrhea will vanish as if plucked away.

For Children with 'Rolled-Back-Eyes Wind' (Convulsions)

(That is, seizures) Take 1 handful of mint leaves and 1 pinch of cockroach droppings, roast until cooked, grind into powder, mix with clean water, and dab onto the child's tongue. Cures children's seizures with rolled-back eyes, with excellent results.

For Children with Blistering Sores

Take เดิงรั้ง leaves, sun-dry, grind finely, mix with pomegranate-flavored water, and apply to the blistering sores. Very good properties.

Medicine for 'Talan-Khamoi' (Childhood Wasting Illness)

Take lemongrass, cassumunar ginger, sea-holly plant, and สนุ่น bark (สนุ่น: a plant with large leaves, green on the face, pale cream on the underside, with pointed cream-colored flowers in long clusters) — 5 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each, equal amounts — place in a clay pot, boil with 3 parts water, reduce to 1 part remaining, take morning and evening...

...1 teacup at a time. Cures children's fever, wasting/malnutrition illness (ตานขโมย), bloated belly, and lung ailments, with good results.

Medicine for Difficulty Urinating

Take several lime seeds, burn them until charred (can be placed on a spatula over the stove), pound finely, mix with vinegar to make a paste, dab it onto the pubic area with cotton wool dipped in it, and wrap a cloth around briefly. In a short while, urination will flow easily without obstruction.

Medicine for Knee Pain

Take one's own urine and pour it over both knees, 1 dipper each, once in the morning and once in the evening before bathing, at least twice a day. The knee pain will go away on its own.

Medicine for Itchy Rash Around the Ankle

Use gasoline applied to the area of the itchy rash around the ankle, repeated many times. The parasites will die and the condition will be cured.

Medicine for Knee Pain

Take all five parts of the 'phak-sian-phi' plant, wash clean, together with cassumunar ginger and camphor — 3 ingredients, suitable amounts of each — pound finely, mix with liquor, press out only the liquid, and rub it onto the knee area. Very effective for relieving knee pain.

Medicine for Someone Who Has Fainted

Take 7 shallots, peel off the skin, together with 1 salueng weight of borneol camphor, pound until crushed. Use a drinking straw dipped in it to blow into the patient's throat; the second time, blow it into the nostrils. The patient will revive immediately. Truly excellent results.

Medicine for Colicky Pain with Dizziness ("Streaked Wind")

Take sea-holly plant, 2 handfuls, nut-grass tubers, 1 kg, roasted sifted peppercorns worth 2 baht (in silver), long pepper worth 1 baht (in silver — that is, buy however much that amount will get you), and garlic, 1 curry-bowl. Sun-dry, pound finely, mix with honey, roll into pills. Take before bed every day. It is a longevity medicine; has been used with very good results many times.

Medicine for 'San-ni-bat' Wind Illness

Take สะค้าน (Piper ribesioides stem), ชะพลู (wild betel leaf), สมุลแว้ง (cinnamon bark), nutmeg seed, nutmeg flower (mace), and ironwood flower (บุนนาค) — 6 ingredients, 4 baht weight of each, equal amounts — plus 4 baht weight of roasted sifted peppercorns. Pound finely, mix with pure honey, roll into pills. Take 3 times a day. Suitable for both women and men, but anyone currently running a fever must absolutely not take it. Has truly excellent properties.

Medicine to Treat Fresh Wounds

Take cotton wool and wipe the wound clean. Mix dipterocarp resin oil with white granulated sugar and apply all over the wound. Bandage it snugly with cloth and leave it for 7 days — do not remove the cloth, and absolutely do not let it get wet. After 7 days have passed, remove the cloth; the wound will have healed back to normal.

Medicine to Treat Fresh Wounds and Chronic Wounds

Take 1 noodle-bowl of coconut oil, 7 grains of roasted sifted peppercorns, 7 cloves of garlic (crushed until broken), mixed with the coconut oil. Take 2 baht weight of 'milk-lead' (ตะกั่วนม, a traditional lead-based substance) and heat it until melted, then pour it into the coconut oil. Use cotton wool dipped in it to apply to fresh wounds, chronic wounds, and tar-burn wounds. Very good.

Medicine to Stop Bleeding

Take nut-grass leaves, pound finely, mix with the lime paste used for chewing betel, and poultice all over the wound. The bleeding will stop immediately. Has truly excellent properties.

Medicine for Inflammation from Nail or Thorn Punctures

Take shallots and rock sugar, pound together and poultice on the wound. The pain will go away, with no more pain or swelling.

Medicine for All Kinds of Spreading/Changing Wounds

Take the 'nam-khang-mak-din' plant together with white chalk powder, pound finely, and poultice on the spreading wound. Very good properties.

Medicine to Protect the Pregnancy

Take khao-yen-nuea tuber, khao-yen-tai tuber, the pollen/stamens of 5 flowers (jasmine, bullet-wood, ironwood, sarapee, and lotus), and เนระพูสี — 8 ingredients altogether, 1 baht weight of each, equal amounts. Put in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid. Nourishes the health of the mother and the unborn child, and makes childbirth easy. Very good results.

Medicine for Madness Caused by Blood

Take 3 giant forest scorpions, burn and grind finely, mix with liquor and take by mouth. Has the property of curing madness in women caused by blood from childbirth, or from irregular menstruation. Good results.

Medicine to Contract the Womb (Post-Partum)

Take all five parts of the เอื้องนา orchid plant and all five parts of the periwinkle plant, wash clean, put in a clay pot and boil. Take every day after giving birth, until the postpartum fire-confinement period ('yu fai') ends. A medicine to contract the womb, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for 'Blood Rising' (Blood Disorder)

Take 1 handful of the indigo plant, put it in a clay pot and boil; drink it to cure the blood disorder. (The master said to also boil 3 rusty nails together with it, but the compiler felt this was inadvisable, since rust carries disease; the indigo plant alone already has sufficient medicinal properties.)

Medicine for 'San-ni-bat Na-phloeng' (a Postpartum Wind-Fever Illness)

Take cobwebs from above the stove (หญ้ายองไฟ), burnt stingray skin, alum, sea salt, and roasted sifted peppercorns — 5 ingredients, equal weights — grind finely, wrap in thin white cloth, and steep in 1 bottle of liquor. It may be taken this way, or ground into powder and mixed with liquor. Cures 'san-ni-bat na-phloeng' illness, with symptoms of delirium and restlessness caused by lochia failing to descend after childbirth. It is also a medicine to increase breast milk. Has been used with very good results many times.

Medicine for Itching of the Urinary Passage in Women

Take มะผ่อ leaves, put in a clay pot and boil; drink the liquid. Cures itching of the urinary passage in women. Very good results.

Medicine for External Cancer

Take some kind of animal meat, any amount as needed, chop finely. Take 1 root of the thorn-apple (datura) plant, grind it against the underside of a clay pot lid with half a teacup of rice-rinsing water. Mix the ground liquid with the meat, and poultice it onto the mouth of the wound in the early evening. In the morning, remove it and burn it away. Do this for 10 days, and the cancerous wound will be completely cured.

Medicine for Cancer

Take pandanus root, pineapple crown, starfruit root, khao-...

...khao-yen-tai tuber, and husked jasmine rice — 6 ingredients, equal amounts of each. Boil in a clay pot; drink the liquid. Cures cancer. Has been used with very good results many times.

Medicine for Cancer of the Womb

Take khao-yen-nuea, khao-yen-tai, ton-non-tai-yak, cat's-milk root, and white canna tuber — 5 ingredients, 4 baht weight of each, equal amounts — plus 1 handful of sea salt. Put in a clay pot and boil; take before breakfast and dinner, half a glass each time. Cures cancer of the womb, with truly excellent results.

Medicine for Kasai (Wasting/Weakness Disease)

Formula 1: Take young bael fruit, sweet flag, aloe resin ('ya dam'), lotus root, nut-grass, มะกา leaves, and golden-shower-tree leaves — 7 ingredients, 1 baht weight of each, equal amounts — plus 11 neem twigs. Put in a clay pot and boil; drink. Has the property of curing every kind of kasai illness, with truly excellent results.

Formula 2: Take the heartwood of Senna siamea, teak heartwood, สะบ้า root or มะเยา root (called 'see-lot' in Khorat), and corn cobs — 4 ingredients, equal amounts — boil and drink in place of water. Very good for curing kasai illness.

Medicine for All Kinds of Aches and Pains

Take 5 coffee-spoons of pure honey and 1 coffee-spoon of lime juice, mix together well, fill the glass with well-chilled soda water, mix and drink while it is still fizzy — 1 glass upon waking in the morning, 1 glass before bed, twice a day, for just 2-3 days only.

Medicine for Hemorrhoids

Take nutmeg seed, nutmeg flower (mace), cloves, long pepper, dragon's-blood resin (เลือดแรด)...

...blood of "deang-pha" (herb name kept as printed), all 6 ingredients, in equal weight, ground to a powder and mixed with cooled boiled water. Take before the morning and evening meal, one coffee-spoon each time. Very effective for hemorrhoids of the anus. The owner of this remedy used it to cure himself completely.

Remedy for bleeding from the anus

Take sappan wood, phak-prap grass, and khlu-tree bark (given in the text as "all 5, these 3 kinds"), equal amounts of each, put into a clay pot and boil. Take morning and evening, or whenever bleeding occurs. Very good for curing bleeding from the anus.

Remedy for typhoid fever (also called "little rash fever")

Take: one shoot of phak-khao, one section of theao-wan-priang vine, one frond of jak-palm thatch (the kind used for roofing), one slice of unripe betel nut. Take these 4 ingredients, put into a clay pot, boil and drink. Effective for typhoid fever; it has been used a great deal.

Remedy for "northern fever"

Take the five kinds of flower stamens (jasmine, phikun, bunnak, sarapee, lotus), the three myrobalans (samo phiphek, samo thet, samo thai), Indian-gooseberry fruit, the two ma-waeng (tree and vine varieties), boraphet vine, oi-turmeric, young bael fruit, krda-om fruit, cogon-grass root, ya-nang vine, mai-thao-yai-mom, khla tuber, northern and southern khao-yen roots — 21 ingredients in all, one baht weight of each — together with 13 neem stalks. Put into a clay pot, boil, and drink. Very effective for curing northern fever.

Remedy for fever

Take red sandalwood, white sandalwood, one krda-om fruit, rachaphruek leaf, fragrant vetiver, fragrant chalut wood, maprang root, lime root, hua-haeo-mu tuber, chaphlu root, boraphet, mai-thao-yai-mom root, tamlueng vine, kaeo-tree root — 14 ingredients in all...

...take equal amounts of each of these [14 ingredients], put into a clay pot, boil, and drink. Very effective for curing every kind of fever.

Longevity tonic

Formula 1: Take 2 kg of ngueak-pla-mo plant, 3 kg of haeo-mu tuber, 4 kg of sifted white pepper. Dry them in the sun, grind to powder, add pure honey until the medicine is submerged, and let it steep for 3 days. Roll into pills and take every morning and evening. Improves health and grants long life. Formula 2: Take 500 grams of do-mai-ru-lom plant, 1000 grams of thong-phan-chang, 500 grams of ngueak-pla-mo plant, 500 grams of white pepper. Grind all the medicine to powder, mix with honey, and roll into pills the size of the little finger's tip. Eat before the morning meal and before sleeping, twice a day. Very effective.

Remedy for the 108 ailments

Take the leaves and stem of thong-phan-chang, dry together in the sun, put into a clay pot and boil. Pour out about half a teacup of the liquid, mix with pure honey. Take before the morning meal and before sleeping, twice a day. A body tonic that cures the 108 kinds of disease.

Remedy for all manner of ailments

Take nutmeg fruit, asafoetida, camphor, ya-dam (black purgative resin), sifted white pepper — all 5 in equal weight, either 4 or 8 baht each. Pound into powder, mix with lime juice, and roll into pellets the size of khat-khao seeds. Take 3–4 pellets at a time. For women with absent menstruation, or griping pain of the lower abdomen, take with hot water. For possessing spirits in the belly or throat, or for poison, take with liquor. For hemorrhoids of the anus, take with lime juice. May be taken internally or applied externally; very effective.

Remedy for internal heat and thirst

Take the whole luk-tai-bai plant (5 parts), wash clean, put into a clay pot and boil. Drink. Very good for relieving internal heat and thirst.

Remedy for inflammation from a splinter under the nail

Take cotton wool soaked in pure honey and pack it onto the fingertip pierced by the splinter, after the splinter has been pulled out. Wrap with cloth. Very good for relieving pain, swelling, and inflammation.

Remedy for stomach disease

Take fresh, mature turmeric rhizome, slice thin or into flakes, sun-dry for at most 2 days, then pound until fine. Mix with honey and roll into pills the size of the little finger's tip. Eat 2 pills a day, before the morning and evening meals.

Remedy for asthma

Take 6 baht weight of kradangnga root, 5 baht weight of phikun root, 5 baht weight of thong-phan-chang root, 4 baht weight of northern khao-yen root, 5 baht weight of southern khao-yen medicine. Put all 5 ingredients into a clay pot, boil, and drink. Very effective for curing asthma.

Remedy for cough

Take 2 soup-spoons of pure honey with one wedge of lime, squeeze and mix together, and take it all at once. The cough will stop almost immediately.

Remedy for chronic cough

Take a suitable amount of fresh ut-phit tuber, one clove of garlic, 7 grains of sifted white pepper, 7 dee-plee (long pepper) flowers. Pound these 4 ingredients until fine, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills the size of a corn kernel. Take 1 pill at a time. Very effective for curing chronic cough.

Remedy for nasal polyps

Take garlic bulbs, pound fine, dry in the sun, mix with shredded tobacco and a suitable amount of borneol camphor. Roll in a banana leaf as a cigarette and smoke it through the nose — inhale the smoke into the nostril for a long while, then switch and inhale through the other side, alternating. Very effective for curing sinus disease or nasal polyps.

Remedy for nosebleed

Take guava-tree root, wash clean, put into a clay pot, boil, and drink in place of tea. Very effective for stopping nosebleed; it has been used with good results many times.

Remedy for the common cold

Take shredded tobacco, jasmine flower, and kaffir-lime peel, equal parts of each. Dry in the sun, grind fine, mix with a suitable amount of borneol camphor, camphor, or cinnamon seed. Use as a snuff. Very effective. The owner of this remedy used it on himself and has never again suffered a stuffy-nose cold.

Remedy to expel phlegm from bronchial inflammation

Take the five candle-herbs (red, white, black, rice-grain, and grasshopper-eye varieties), the three myrobalans (phiphek, thet, thai), Indian gooseberry, chaphlu root, pine heartwood, khilek heartwood, black sesame, tamarind leaf — 14 ingredients in equal parts. Put into a clay pot and boil. Take the liquid before the morning and evening meal. A laxative remedy that treats bronchial inflammation very effectively.

Remedy for influenza

Take krda-om fruit, bermuda grass, boraphet, red sandalwood, nutmeg, kot-so root, kot-khema root, krung-khema, licorice, neem stalks —

...take 2 baht weight of each of these 10 ingredients, plus 1 handful of maka leaf. Put into a clay pot, boil, and take morning and evening. Very effective for curing colds and influenza.

Eye drops for red eyes and cataract

Take about one small bottle of fifth-month honey, and one grain of roasted sea salt. Steep together for about 3 hours. Use as eye drops, 3 times a day, 2 drops each time. Within just 3 days, red eyes, cloudy eyes, sore eyes, and cataract will be cured. Very effective.

Remedy for cataract disease

Take boraphet, alum, borneol camphor, and bear's bile — 4 ingredients, 1 salueng weight of each equally. Mix with a suitable amount of liquor and let it ferment for 3 days. Use the liquid as eye drops. Very effective for curing cataract.

Eye drops for red eyes — every kind of eye disease

Take sappan-wood heartwood shaved into small pieces, a suitable amount of borneol camphor, and clean rainwater. Put the sappan wood and borneol camphor into a small glazed vessel, add rainwater to cover, and steep for about 3 days. When the liquid has turned a good red colour, strain it clean through thin white cloth. Use a soaked cotton swab or an eye-drop tube. Red eyes and eye pain of every kind will be cured. Very good results.

Remedy for paralysis (stroke)

Take 30 garlic bulbs, cut each in half, dry in the sun, and weigh however much that comes to. Take dried ginger, haeo-mu tuber, and kot-krasun root, combine all 3 and weigh out an amount equal to the weight of the garlic. Put into a clay pot, boil, and drink in place of water. Cures paralysis and dead/numb hands and feet; has cured many people already.

Remedy for hemiplegia and paralysis

Take carambola (all 5 parts), 1 baht weight; ron-thong tuber, 2 salueng; nutmeg, 2 salueng; black candle-herb, 4 baht; kip-raet herb, 1 baht; bitter-gourd leaf and phimsen leaf, weight equal to the other ingredients. Put into a clay pot, boil, and drink the liquid — or pound into powder, mix with pure honey, and roll into pills to take instead. Very effective for curing hemiplegia and paralysis.

Remedy for an enlarged heart

Take northern khao-yen tuber, southern khao-yen tuber, yellow sulphur, kamphaeng-chet-chan bark, thong-phan-chang, licorice — 6 ingredients, 10 baht weight of each equally. Put into a clay pot, boil, and drink 1 teacup at a time, 3 times a day after meals. Cures an enlarged heart, irregular heartbeat, weakness, and breathlessness; has been used with good results many times.

Remedy for abnormal heart palpitations

Take the whole mai-ya-rap (touch-me-not/mimosa) plant, wash clean, chop into small pieces, dry in the sun, roast until yellow, and brew with hot water to drink in place of tea. Good results for curing heart palpitations or abnormally strong heartbeat.

Remedy for men's and women's ailments

Take the whole khoi tree, wash clean, chop into small pieces; northern and southern khao-yen — 3 ingredients in equal parts. Put into a clay pot, boil, and drink daily in place of tea. Within a short time it will be cured; very effective.

Remedy for stomach ailments

Take 30 shells of blood-cockle, 33 shells of pond snail...

...put them into a clay pot, set on the fire until burnt to charcoal, grind fine. Add white chalk powder worth 2 baht and borneol camphor worth 2 baht (that is, buy 2 baht worth of each — take whatever amount that gets you, no need to bargain over the price). Pound all 5 ingredients together, take a portion with hot water. Cures stomach disease completely within 40 days; very effective.

Remedy for asthma

Take theao-wan-priang vine, 3.25 baht weight; samesan heartwood, 6.75 baht; sappan-wood heartwood, 2.50 baht; haeo-mu tuber, 2 baht; ma-kham-kai leaf, 2.50 baht. Put all 5 into a clay pot, boil, and drink in place of water.

Remedy for diabetes

(a remedy told by a spirit) Take kamphaeng-chet-chan bark, 2 baht; horse-whip herb, 2 baht; ma-waeng-khruea vine, 2 baht; white mok flower, 2 baht; red muak vine, 2 baht; Thai licorice, 2 baht; lamchiak root, 3 baht; khonda root, 3 baht. Method of use: divide the medicine into packets, one packet per dose. Boil the first packet and drink in place of water, boiling until the taste turns bland. Save the spent dregs, dried in the sun. Boil the second packet and drink until bland likewise. Once the dregs are dried, combine the dregs of both packets and boil them together; drink until bland, then stop. The diabetes will be cured completely. Once cured, it is best to make merit and dedicate it to the owner of the remedy. Help pass this on to others — do not sell it for profit.

Remedy for shingles

Formula 1: Take 10 grams of salet-phangphon leaf, 10 grams of white chalk powder, 1 baht of borneol camphor, 20 cc of white liquor. Pound until fine, mix with the liquor, and apply over the affected area, twice a day. Formula 2: Take bodhi-tree bark and tamarind-tree bark, grind with limewater, and apply to the affected area...

Formula 3: Take khi-thuan seeds, roast until charred to charcoal, grind fine, mix with liquor, and apply to the affected area. Will heal within 5 days.

Remedy for kidney stones

Take fresh or dried cat's-whisker herb, stems and all. Use 1 Mekhong-bottle (750 cc) of water. Boil or brew and drink in place of water, 1 bottle a day, every day until cured.

Boiled remedy for kasai (a wasting condition) and numbness/tingling

Take greater galangal, red-eyed galangal, cassumunar ginger, ginger, kamphaeng-chet-chan bark, red sandalwood, white sandalwood, kradang leaf, raka leaf, phak-khun — 5 tamlueng of each; salt, long pepper, white pepper — 1 cup of each; rice grains, 3 pinches; camphor, 3 salueng. Boil and drink morning and evening; very good.

Boiled remedy for wind-paralysis

Take salaeng-jai herb (5 parts), phraya-sattaban herb (5 parts), makham-kai herb (5 parts), and theao-wan-priang vine. Boil and drink morning and evening.

Special kasai (wasting-condition) remedy

Take nutmeg, long pepper, cardamom, cloves, dried ginger, red chetamun-phloeng root, black candle-herb, red phak-phaeo, camphor, krapuk tuber, wild-yam tuber, ut-taphit tuber, both kinds of kradam tuber, garlic — one baht weight of each equally; white pepper, 15 baht. Pound to powder and dissolve in hot water or honey; used as a vehicle to treat cold feet, cold hands, and hemorrhoids very well. If taken, this medicine tends to cause constipation; after taking it for 3–4 days one should take a laxative once, which is best.

...one time, which is best.

Remedy for hair falling out in patches

Take male makham root, thao-khao-kham root, albino-buffalo bone — 5 tamlueng of each; khan-thong-phraya-bat, both kinds of khao-yen medicine — 10 baht of each; black candle-herb, 8 baht; one slab of salted buffalo meat laid under the pot. Boil and drink morning and evening. Very effective.

Special remedy

Take nutmeg fruit, asafoetida, camphor, ya-dam, white pepper — 4 or 8 baht of each. Pound to powder; when grinding, use lime juice as the vehicle, and roll into pellets the size of khat-khao seeds. Take 3 or 4 pellets at a time. Good for women with absent menstruation. For griping pain, use hot water [as the vehicle]. For possessing spirits in the belly or throat, use liquor. For severe hemorrhoids of the anus, use lime juice — take both internally and apply externally. If afflicted by poison, use liquor. Cures every kind of poison completely.

Remedy for madness / a disturbed mind

Take sappan-wood heartwood, 4 baht; khilek-lueat, 4 baht; theao-wan-priang, 4 baht; makham-kai root, 4 baht; safflower, 4 baht; both kinds of samae, 4 baht each; thot-thanong, 4 baht; khun heartwood, 4 baht; fingerroot, 4 baht; greater galangal, 4 baht; krda-om fruit, 4 baht; kot-nam-tao, 4 baht; maka heartwood, 4 baht; thephpharo, 4 baht; maka leaf, 4 baht; both kinds of buak, 2 baht each; both kinds of plao, 2 baht; both kinds of hang-lai, 2 baht; luk-khek-tai tree, 2 baht; kra-thok-rok, 2 baht; samun-waeng, 2 baht; ma-sang bark, 2 baht; chetamun-phloeng, 1 baht; long pepper, 1 baht; chaphlu, 1 baht; sakhan, 1 baht; dried ginger, 1 baht; agarwood, 1 baht; kalamphak, 1 baht; khon-dok, 1 baht; nutmeg, 1 baht; cinnamon, 1 baht. Pound to powder, mix with honey. Restores the blood to fullness. Very effective.

Remedy to disperse a haunting spirit

Take sanit leaf, som-boi leaf, tamarind leaf, cassumunar ginger, and salt, pound together, wrap in white cloth as a compress ball, then tie the white cloth over the mouth of a pot. Bring it down to press against the cloth covering the pot's mouth until it is as hot as can be borne, then press the compress against the affected spot. The haunting will clear.

Remedy for wasting-type hemorrhoids

Take cardamom leaf, alum, ka-chap vegetable, white pepper, garlic, rhinoceros blood, black candle-herb, red candle-herb, rice-grain candle-herb, white candle-herb, khao-wapani candle-herb, sappan wood, lac resin, safflower — 1 baht of each; ya-yon-fai grass, 1 baht. Pound to powder and eat. Makes food taste good and nourishes the body's elements, relieves gas and bloating, and restores menstruation to fullness. May be taken with lime juice, lemon juice, bitter-orange juice, som-sa juice, tamarind water, vinegar, or liquor. Very effective, heals well.

Pill remedy for numbness/tingling

Take the five candle-herbs and camphor, 1 baht of each; white pepper, 6 baht; tamarind pulp and salt, 10 baht of each. Pound until fine, then add the cassumunar ginger and tamarind pulp afterward, pound until well combined, and eat. Very good.

Remedy for a possessing spirit at the throat

Take the two kinds of galangal (the tuber kind), and som-kung, 5 tamlueng of each; khan-thong-phraya-bat, 10 baht. Boil and drink morning and evening. Very effective.

Elemental tonic

Take samun-waeng bark, 6 tamlueng; cloves, 4 tamlueng; long pepper, 5 tamlueng; dried ginger, 5 tamlueng; muen-thon, 1 tamlueng; camphor, 1 tamlueng...

...cinnamon, 4 tamlueng; peppermint liquor, 3 bottles. Mix and take. Has been used with good results many times; very effective.

Remedy for pradong (a wasting/swelling ailment) that has become chronic

Take northern khao-yen medicine, southern khao-yen medicine, dried tan-palm shoot, ya-nang root, water lemongrass, khao-kha tuber — 5 baht weight of each. Boil and drink; will be cured; very effective.

Remedy for a hoarse voice that has failed to the point of being unable to speak

Take 108 limes, squeeze out the juice only; both kinds of som-kung, pound reasonably fine; gold leaf worth 1 feuang (an old coin denomination), and chan-thana beads worth 3 cowrie-shells. Put all 4 of these ingredients into the lime juice and bury it, steeped, in unhusked rice for 3 days and 3 nights. Then take it, and the voice will become clear again; very good.

Remedy for painful, obstructed urination

Take Indian gooseberry, root and leaf together, 1 tamlueng weight; sappan-wood heartwood, 1 tamlueng; a suitable amount of sugarcane pulp. Boil down to one-third of the original volume. For painful, obstructed urination with blood, and pain in the urinary passage, take this remedy boiled and drink; will be cured very effectively.

Remedy for blood passed from the anus

Take fingerroot, 5 satang worth; salt, 5 satang worth. Pound the fingerroot fine, add a suitable amount of clean water, then strain out only the liquid, put it into a pan set on the fire, and stir together with the salt. Stir until all the salt has dissolved, then put it into a bottle. Drink one small cup a day. Bleeding passed from the anus will be cured. This is the medicine of a certain monk of Phitsanulok, who made an aspiration and asked for the remedy from the Phra Phuttha Chinnarat Buddha image of Phitsanulok. When he made his aspiration, a layperson came and told him this remedy to prepare and take, and it cured him — and it still works to this very day.

Boiled remedy to reverse curses of various kinds

Zedoary, 1; fingerroot, 1; cassumunar ginger, 1; benkani gall-nut, 1 of each; sifted white pepper, 1; both kinds of samae, 2 of each; the three myrobalans, 2 of each; both kinds of sandalwood, 3 of each; young bael fruit, 3; rachaphruek, 4; theao-wan-priang vine, 1; sweet-flag rhizome, 2; sak-lek herb, 2; rong-thong resin, 1; nang-kham herb, 1; maha-mek herb, 1; kae-lae wood, 1; kamlang-wua-thaloeng herb, 1; safflower, 2; rhinoceros blood, 1; Epsom-type salt, 2; camphor, 1; khilek heartwood, 5; maka leaf, 2; krda-om fruit, 3; boraphet, 1; foreign pepper, 2; kaffir lime, 3 fruits cut into 4 wedges each; wan-hang-chang (sword-lily) leaf, 1; wan-hang-chang tuber, 2 tubers. The wan-hang-chang tuber and leaf are to be consecrated with the incantation (kept as printed, romanised): "namo phutthaya, ma-a-u, sangwithapukayapa, apa, majupathinasang-angkhusothaya, wachonoamawaphasangsangwisathepha." The other medicines are to be consecrated with: "lopususawiphutthasangphaa, aphissamejaissawasu." Boil and consecrate; heals very well.

Poultice remedy to reverse curses and various painful ailments

Fresh cassumunar ginger, phak-prap grass, liquor, camphor, cooked rice — a suitable amount of each. Pound until fine, then make into a poultice while consecrating with the incantation (kept as printed, romanised): "bisamchalopusatphut, somanathaeritharo." Consecrate for 108 recitations, then blow onto the head, or the holy water may be consecrated and given to drink. Even to draw out a [cursed] object from the body, this gives good results.

Blood tonic for people with low blood

Foreign grass, 1 baht weight; rhinoceros blood, 2 baht; American ginseng, 2 baht; Korean ginseng, 2 baht; musk, 2 salueng; ngueak-pla-mo plant, already ground, 5 baht; white pepper, already ground, 2 baht. For every medicine not yet ground, grind it yourself while reciting "ayu, wanna, sukha, phala" throughout the pounding until it reaches 108 repetitions. Then mix with the already-ground ingredients and roll into pills to be taken with honey.

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Biography of Luang Pu Suk Kesaro Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, Chai Nat

[Image: black-and-white photograph of an elderly senior monk seated cross-legged, holding a ceremonial fan bearing his personal emblem, seated beside a richly carved throne-like chair]

Luang Pu Suk Kesaro's father was named "Nuam," a native of Wat Sing district, Chai Nat province. His mother was named "Thong Dee," a native of Bangkok. Luang Pu Suk was born on 14 October, B.E. 2390 [1847 CE]. He had 9 siblings by the same father and mother, with Luang Pu Suk being the eldest son. At age 10, the boy Suk came to live with relatives on his mother's side in Bangkok, studying with monks at the temple there. Because education under monks in that era was structured that way, the boy Suk thus had the opportunity to study occult knowledge (wicha akhom) together with his general schooling. The boy Suk's personal character was such that he feared no one and did not bully or oppress anyone in turn, but if anyone came to insult or bully him, he would never let it pass. When he grew into a young man he married a woman named Sombun.

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...until they had a son named "Son." At one point Mr. Suk grew weary of worldly life, perhaps because of merit accumulated in a past existence stirring his heart, so young Suk asked his wife's permission in order to be ordained. In B.E. 2415 [1872 CE], at the consecrated ordination hall of Wat Pho Thong Lang, Bang Khaen subdistrict, Mr. Suk was thus ordained, with the preceptor Khoei Chanthasiri serving as his ordaining preceptor. He received the ordination name "Kesaro." At the start of his second rains-retreat he set out on thudong (ascetic wandering). Before setting out on that first thudong, the monk Suk Kesaro went to pay homage before the principal Buddha image and made this vow: "I dedicate my life to the religion; I will hold firm to precepts, giving, and meditation, and to the yellow robe until the end of my life. Even if remaining a monk should bring me to my death, whether in the depths of the forest wilderness or in a monk's dwelling, I offer my life as homage to the Buddha..." Over the 30 years that Venerable Pu Suk spent on thudong in solitude, he received extensive training in many fields of knowledge, and became fully accomplished in meditative concentration as well. As the long years passed, some deep part of his heart yearned for his mother, and he turned away from the forest, heading toward Chai Nat, his home province, following the Chao Phraya River as his main route, pitching his shelter here and there, asking after people as he went. His situation at that time was such that his ascetic vows meant Luang Pu Suk could not beg for alms-food or robes from anyone except what was compassionately offered to him. So at that time Luang Pu's appearance was as though clothed in rags, for besides the robe's color having faded, it was also nearly entirely covered in patches and mending. After one rains retreat ended, Luang Pu Suk pitched his shelter at a ruined temple named "Wat U Thong Pak Khlong Makham Thao." He pitched his shelter near the remains of the old ordination hall, not far from the village shrine known as "Shrine of Father Spirit Kui." Mae Thong Dee, learning that a wandering monk had come to pitch his shelter — and searching for her own lost son — prepared a meal offering to bring to him. But when that wandering monk arrived and she saw his small build, dark complexion, and patched robe hardly presentable enough to wear, she went in to pay her respects, and gazed fixedly at the ascetic monk's face without looking away. Luang Pu Suk, for his part, gazed just as fixedly at Mae Thong Dee without looking away. Memories of the past arose in that instant. When both realized that this was indeed the boy Suk, son of Mae Thong Dee, a silence fell over them in that moment of overwhelming emotion. His mother then asked Luang Pu Suk to give up thudong wandering. Luang Pu Suk answered his mother: "From now on I will stop walking thudong and remain settled, as Mother wishes."

Luang Pu Suk builds a temple When Luang Pu Suk (in his younger days), having accepted his mother's invitation, his relatives together with the villagers helped build his first dwelling for him — a small hut roofed with thatch, resembling a farmhouse in the countryside. After that, the villagers helped clear the overgrown bamboo thicket, gradually expanding the temple's grounds, while also planting namwa bananas, hom bananas, khai bananas, hak muk bananas, tani bananas, and other local fruit trees, filling the whole area. Later on, villagers living on the opposite bank across from his dwelling (on the other side of the river) came to observe his conduct

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His strictly disciplined religious conduct inspired such strong faith that a family donated a house to him, dismantling their own house and rebuilding it as his first permanent dwelling; and when it was seen as a marvel that the household who had donated the house then prospered greatly in their livelihood, other villagers likewise developed strong faith, dismantling their own houses to offer to Luang Pu Suk, one after another, until in total four permanent dwellings had been built. This was the state of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao in its earliest period. I (the original recorder, Dr. Samnuan Palawatwichai) became curious as to when "Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao" first came into being. Since no record had been kept, it was very difficult to find evidence, and as more time passed there would be no chance at all to learn it, so I tried asking Mr. Thong Dee Suwannawattana, who had an excellent memory, by checking various events that had happened to Mr. Thong Dee himself, for example, at the time Luang Pu Suk came to pitch his shelter, who had been born and who had died, and calculating this into Buddhist Era years, it emerged that "Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao" came into being in B.E. 2414 [1871 CE], at the latest no later than B.E. 2416 [1873 CE]. If we take it that "Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao" was founded in B.E. 2414, then Luang Pu Suk at that time would have been 44 years old and ordained for 15 rains-retreats, which is close to what some knowledgeable people have said, that he had spent about 15 rains-retreats on thudong.

How the temple got its name At the very beginning, on the north side of the mouth of Khlong Makham Thao, there stood one very large tamarind tree, about 3 arm-spans in girth, not very tall, and this tamarind tree grew right at the edge of the canal. Over time, the current of the Chao Phraya River gradually eroded the soil of the western bank, and eventually this "great tamarind tree" was undermined by the water and fell into the Chao Phraya River. The person who related this history to the original recorder had had the chance to see this great tamarind tree himself. This great tamarind tree is the very origin of the name "Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao" [Temple at the Mouth of the Old Tamarind Canal] as used today. In the early period when Luang Pu Suk first established the temple at Pak Khlong Makham Thao, he built the ordination hall and vihara not far from a certain "ruined temple." This temple was named "Wat U Thong." In earlier times the ordination hall of Wat U Thong still had a visible ordination-boundary platform clearly to be seen. The ordination hall itself stood in the middle of a pond surrounded by water. The various stupas still had bases tall enough to be seen, but the area all around was still very overrun with wild growth, an atmosphere fearsome with spirits, ghosts, and various supernatural dangers, as well as wild beasts such as tigers, among others. When Luang Pu Suk, together with the faith of relatives and villagers, had successfully built the temple, he must have taken the name Wat U Thong to use as the name of his own temple; some material evidence exists to support this claim, namely one series of "coin/amulet" of his which was issued at Wat Song Sawoei, Nong Noi subdistrict, Wat Sing district, bearing an inscription on its reverse reading: "Phra Khru Wimon, resides at Wat U Thong, Khlong Makham Thao" As for another witness, there is Mr. Net Phaeng Klin, who served as "secretary" to Luang Pu Suk for many years, who also told the original recorder that the original name of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao was indeed Wat U Thong, Pak Khlong Makham Thao.

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Another eyewitness is Samu Thonglo Thatsamalee (Thonglo Thanawaro), former 5th abbot of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, who told me that as a child he had been a pupil at Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao; once, at Luang Pu Suk's funeral, he had dressed as part of the lion-figure procession accompanying the funeral cortege. He told the original recorder that the temple's name-sign in the old days read "Wat U Thong Pak Khlong Makham Thao" (using the old-fashioned spelling ถ for ถุง in place of ฒ for ผู้เฒ่า, a traditional way of writing). From the research of the original recorder, Dr. Samnuan Palawatwichai, it was learned that the name Wat U Thong Pak Khlong Makham Thao continued to be used on and on until B.E. 2474 [1931 CE] (before the change of administrative system), at which point, in the time of Phra Palat Nid (Nid Manitkun) as abbot, the name "Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao" came to be used as the official name from then on. At that time the word "U Thong" was dropped from the name; this information matches the account of Samu Thonglo Thatsamalee, who said the temple's name changed in the year he was ordained for his first rains-retreat, namely B.E. 2474. As for the reasons behind the name change, these can be divided into 2 categories: 1. The original name was too long, having combined the name of the ruined temple adjoining Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao into one name. 2. Villagers had come to prefer simply calling it "Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao."

Rama V grants the sanctified monastic boundary (wisungkhamasima) Exactly when Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao received the royally-granted sanctified boundary — in what year or month — no documentary evidence has been found to confirm; but as far as the original recorder was able to determine from clear first-hand testimony, Samu Thonglo Thatsamalee, former 5th abbot of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, affirmed that: "I myself still saw the certificate granting the sanctified boundary, written in Khom script, bearing the signature of His Majesty King Chulalongkorn." However, this important document was later lost; it is believed that someone must certainly be treasuring and venerating it, since it bears the "signature" of the "Great Beloved King," Rama V, an object of the deepest reverence for all Thai people.

The tradition of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao The following information about Luang Pu Suk is drawn from the biography of Luang Pu Suk written by Dr. Samnuan Palawatwichai; I offer my thanks to Dr. Samnuan here. The story of the motorboat that struck the floating ordination hall of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao Mr. Net Phaeng Klin, of the house below Wat Phikun Ngam, Thammamun subdistrict, Mueang district, Chai Nat province, told this story on 4 March B.E. 2522 [1979 CE]; it is something he witnessed with his own eyes when he was ordained as a monk at Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao for 7 rains-retreats, around B.E. 2472 [1929 CE]. In front of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao there was moored the temple's floating ordination hall, roofed with thatch and covered in zinc sheeting. Luang Pho Suk forbade the passenger boats from stopping to pick up or drop off passengers at the floating ordination hall. One day the helmsman of the Chakkranarai boat did not heed his order and stopped to let a passenger off at the floating hall. In docking, the boat struck the raft, damaging the zinc roofing. The Chakkranarai boat then ran forward and back, in and out, remaining stuck like that from that afternoon into the evening and through the night, until the following dawn it still could not get the boat

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clear past the front of the temple. When the following morning came, Luang Pho Suk, taking pity, had someone tell the men on the boat to come up and eat. Once they had come to beg forgiveness from him, they were able to bring the boat out clear of the temple.

Wanting to watch the steamboat up close This is a story that Mr. Prasoet Chuea Phai experienced himself. As a child, Mr. Prasoet Chuea Phai regularly went to play at Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, and being the son of Khun Thian Phaet (Tiang), who was a close disciple of Luang Pho Suk, Luang Pho Suk therefore knew very well who each child playing about the temple was and whose child he was. Steamboats in those days were commonly called "towing boats" (ruea yong) — boats fitted with steam engines, using firewood as their source of heat. In the old days they mostly towed rice barges. The narrator's home was at the market of Wat Sing district, where no towing boats passed; they ran only on the Chao Phraya River. I had known the narrator for many years and had heard bits of this story before, but had only just learned that he himself was the source of it, in B.E. 2523 [1980 CE], and so I asked him to write the story down for me, which he kindly did. The account Mr. Prasoet Chuea Phai wrote out for me reads as follows: Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao stands on the west side of the Chao Phraya River, and to the south of the headwaters of the Tha Chin River. Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao is an old temple; in the days when Luang Pho Suk served as district ecclesiastical head he was given the royal clerical title Phra Khru Wimolkhunakon. He was greatly learned in the occult sciences, as I the writer came to witness and experience myself. This was around B.E. 2463–2464 [1920–1921 CE]. Coming home from school, I would often invite other children to go gather bullet-wood seeds to play a knocking game with. One day he called us up to his dwelling, and he asked whether we wanted to see a steamboat. We said we did, since being in the market we rarely got to see one — the distance from Wat Pak Khlong to the market being about 2 kilometers. When I told him I wanted to see one up close, he got up and took his monastic under-robe hanging on the railing, folded it, then sat in meditation a while. He then opened his eyes and told us: take this cloth and lay it out at the floating ordination hall; when a steamboat comes, it will come and stop there for you to see for yourselves. I did as instructed. Afterward I went to play about the temple grounds, waiting for the boat. After a good while a steamboat towing barges did indeed come; when it reached the spot where I had laid the cloth, the boat would not move on, stuck right there at the cloth. The crew tried opening the engine to more power but it would not go; in the end they had to gently bring the boat in to the bank in front of the temple. Once the boat had come to the front of the temple, we went and watched it up close to our hearts' content. Then he told us that if we wanted it to sail on, we should go and fetch back the cloth and return it to him. When I judged the time was right, we took back the cloth and gave it to him, and I saw the boat crew go up to see him and pay their respects. After that the boat sailed on as usual.

Luang Pho Suk twists a knife and makes water flow from it This story was told to me by Samu Thonglo Thatsamalee (Thonglo Thanawaro), former 5th abbot of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, on 26 December 2524 [1981 CE]. This story was told to Samu Thonglo by Mr. Ploi, Luang Pho Suk's younger brother (the 8th child of parents Nuam and Thong Dee), who said it was the only time he ever witnessed him perform a miraculous feat, as follows: One day, while Luang Pho Suk was sitting talking with his younger brother Ploi and some others, he was at that time holding a knife

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...one which he always carried with him and used for slicing betel-nut. The conversation that day ended, at one point, on the topic of water. He remarked that water exists everywhere, in every place, even inside iron, though it is not obvious. Having said this, he demonstrated it, using the hand holding the knife: he gripped and twisted it into a spiral shape, and water was seen dripping out from the tip of the knife. Mr. Ploi caught the water and tasted it; it seemed just like ordinary water, only with a smell like rust. When Luang Pho Suk then tapped the knife against the ground, the knife returned at once to its original shape.

Luang Pho Suk subdues lice This story was told to me by Sergeant Prasoet Inthamongkhon on 10 July B.E. 2506 [1963 CE], who related that when he returned from the Korean War, Sergeant Prasoet married a wife who was a close relative of Mr. Hom On-lam. Because of this, whenever Mr. Hom went to the market of Wat Sing district, he would often stop and chat with Sergeant Prasoet. The story of Luang Pho Suk subduing lice was something that happened to Mr. Hom himself, and Mr. Hom in turn told it to Sergeant Prasoet. The story goes as follows: When Mr. Hom On-lam was still a child, his scalp was thick with lice. One day Mr. Hom's father took him to see Luang Pho Suk and told him that lice had overrun his son's head, a real affliction, and asked Luang Pho Suk to please blow a charm over his head to cure it. Luang Pho Suk agreed to blow the charm; the result was that once the charm was blown, all the lice suddenly marched off Mr. Hom's head at once, walking down his arms and legs until every one was gone. From that day forward, lice would never cling to Mr. Hom's body again — even taking one and setting it deliberately on his head, it would not stay. Thus neither ticks nor lice ever bothered Mr. Hom again, right up until his death.

Luang Pho Suk subdues a ghost Mrs. Thip Sukthong told this on 5 May B.E. 2523 [1980 CE]. This story was told to Mrs. Thip by her husband, Mr. Yot Sukthong. Once, when Luang Pho Suk of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao was returning from thudong pilgrimage to pay homage to the Buddha's footprint in Saraburi province, he came upon an abandoned temple whose old abbot had just died. He stopped and pitched his shelter up in the dwelling. A lay supporter came and told him that when a new abbot had come to stay, he could not remain, because the old abbot's ghost caused a disturbance. Luang Pho Suk said he would try staying one night. At night the old abbot's spirit came and asked why he had come. Luang Pho Suk answered, "I ask only to lodge in the dwelling" (the dwelling had been locked shut) — "I have not intruded uninvited; I only ask to sleep here." The old abbot's spirit stayed silent and said nothing, but soon a loud noise began inside the dwelling. Luang Pho Suk chanted various prayers, but it would not stop. The old abbot's spirit laughed mockingly. Luang Pho Suk said he was no longer afraid, and then chanted: "Anicca — alas, I have never seen a dead spirit come to fight a living spirit; homage to the Buddha [namo buddhaya]." The old spirit then vanished. The villagers invited Luang Pho Suk to stay for as long as 5 days, wishing to make him the resident abbot, but he did not accept.

The sanctity of the stupa in front of the ordination hall At the front of the ordination hall of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao stand two stupas, which Luang Pho Suk himself built after the ordination hall had been completed. It is said that sacred amulet images belonging to Luang Pho Suk were enshrined inside them. One night, Mr. Pi, from the house south of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, climbed up onto one of the stupas in front of the ordination hall, and dug down into

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the base of the stupa's bell-shaped casing. It is said that after digging down about the width of one palm, there occurred a marvelous event: thunder crashed and roared, and rain fell heavily, flooding the whole area around the stupa. Mr. Pi, terrified, jumped down from the stupa and fled running. It is said that Mr. Pi had to run so hard that his skin peeled. I had heard the story of Mr. Pi's flight for a long time but had not been able to find a witness to confirm it, until I learned it from Mr. Dee, who runs a coffee shop in front of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao (on 16 January B.E. 2526 [1983 CE]), who knew the story well. He related that one morning Mr. Pi, the one who had dug into the stupa, went to have coffee at Mr. Dee's shop, and told Mr. Dee the story he had personally experienced. Mr. Dee then told me it happened in B.E. 2479 [1936 CE], and that Mr. Dee himself was the one who later bought the mango orchard where Mr. Pi had done his digging. This same Mr. Pi later met with an accident: he fell from a bus, his head struck the ground, and he died. On the day he was to die, Mr. Dee said, [Mr. Pi] happened to walk by and found [someone] drinking liquor, and spoke as if in omen, saying he was going on business, and that once gone he would never come back — which indeed proved true. Not long after, news came of Pi's death.

The sanctity of Luang Pho Suk's word Mr. Ploi was a man of good standing in Wat Sing district, Chai Nat province, with a large house and rice granaries capable of holding up to 800 wagon-loads of rice. One day Mr. Ploi went to report to the police to have a man named Ta Pan arrested for having stolen a target-decoy offered to Krommaluang Chumphon. Mr. Chalam Iamrot, who was ordained as a monk at that time, told me: that day Krommaluang Chumphon, together with his retinue, went out hunting in the forest near Wat Thammamun; he shot at a moorhen, a snipe, a jungle fowl, even a squirrel he shot. Afterward he had them stuffed and mounted with kapok and kept them. When he returned to Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao in the afternoon and could not find clear drinking water, he sent someone to fetch Mr. Yot, whose regular duty this was, and asked him. Mr. Yot explained that Ta Pan, the man responsible, had just been arrested by the police. Krommaluang Chumphon grew very angry, wrote a letter ordering a servant boy to go pay the fine, and had Ta Pan brought back. As for Luang Pho Suk's side, Mr. Chalam related that when Luang Pho Suk heard of this, he sat with a darkened expression and said: "Brother Ploi should not have done that — it has cost [Krommaluang Chumphon] great loss of face. Krommaluang Chumphon is a nobleman; the man who did this was a person living within the temple who showed him no regard at all. His rice granary will surely collapse to dust because of this." Less than two months later, Mr. Ploi lost a lawsuit, had his property seized, his rice granary entirely torn down, and his house seized by the plaintiff and given to Wat Pa or Wat Phanitchayaram — exactly as Luang Pho Suk had foretold, in every particular.

Luang Pho Suk's love of nation It may be taken as settled that Luang Pho Suk of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao was one of the important teacher-monks of the Rattanakosin era, who displayed a remarkable gift for the occult sciences, as can be seen from the various marvelous supernatural feats recounted above. Even so, he also displayed a love of nation befitting any patriotic Thai citizen, as can be seen in Luang Pho Suk's own remarks, which he made to many disciples on many occasions, always saying that if war should break out he would disrobe to serve the nation for about 7 days, and then return to be ordained again. I heard this saying from many disciples of his, from the time I began researching Luang Pho Suk's biography nearly 30 years ago, right up until those elderly disciples gradually passed away one or two at a time until almost none remained, down to the youngest generation of disciples, who in those days were still ordained as novices and still recalled the saying that Luang Pho Suk would leave the monkhood for about 7 days to volunteer to fight the enemy and defend the nation.

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One notable point is that every time he said this, he would say he would disrobe for only 7 days. It may be that setting only 7 days was enough time for him to defeat the enemy, relying chiefly on his mastery of learning. To give an example: the spell that turns tamarind leaves into bees — most people who came to learn it studied it for the purpose of invulnerability. One had to first be ritually "awakened" before learning to conjure various creatures; nevertheless some did learn and succeed at it all the same. But Luang Pho Suk would never teach the method of putting a stinger inside them, in order to prevent misuse if that person should apply it wrongly. Here is an example of the proper way to use bees possessing a stinger, as in the following story. Once, while several disciples were sitting talking with Luang Pho Suk, the subject of that conversation was Thailand's wars with Burma. In the past everyone would surely have known well of the wars against Burma from the Ayutthaya period through the early Rattanakosin period. Luang Pho Suk remarked that fighting to defeat Burma would not be difficult: enchant a single bee and send it to sting the Burmese commanding general, then capture him; better still, use 6-7 of them, sent to sting every general and officer — the only remaining problem being how to manage and control the enemy's rank-and-file troops.

Sacred, potent holy water Luang Pho Choeng Thammathiro told this on 3 March, B.E. 2508 [1965 CE]. This happened when he had been invited down to Bangkok and went to make holy water at Wat Pho Tha Tian (Wat Phra Chetuphon Wimonmangkhalaram). The holy water made on that occasion was extremely potent — it would not pour out of the alms bowl at all; one had to scoop it out by hand to get the holy water out of the bowl. When he returned from Bangkok he told me proudly that in all his years of making holy water, it had never been this potent before. It is said that upon returning from making holy water that time, he received offerings of dried goods filling an entire boat (the very boat that Krommaluang Chumphon had given to Luang Pho Suk for his regular trips to and from Bangkok). There is another story about this potent holy water. I forgot to note down who told it to me, but I still have the following account written down: Once, while the sala of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao was under construction, while Luang Pho Suk sat talking with the workmen building the sala, a man came carrying a bowl of water for him to consecrate as holy water to redeem his son [from misfortune]. He accepted the bowl and set it down, continuing to talk with the workmen about the construction the whole while. After only a short moment he handed the bowl of water back to the man who had brought it, without appearing to have done anything to it. When the man took the bowl of water back, and afterward, out of Luang Pho Suk's sight, tried to pour the water out, it turned out the water would not pour out of the bowl at all.

Transforming into a young monk Luang Pho Choeng Thammathiro told this on 3 March, B.E. 2508. Phra Khru Wimonkhunakon (Suk) served as ordaining preceptor for a great many newly ordained monks, these newly ordained monks being scattered among various temples in the area of Wat Sing district, Chai Nat province. When the time of entering the rains-retreat came around, they would all arrange to come together to pay their respects to Luang Pho Suk. Normally Luang Pho Suk liked to stay at the pavilion in the middle of the rice fields; during the day he would sweep that pavilion himself. When the newly ordained monks came looking for him at his dwelling and did not find him, they asked a temple boy where Luang Pho Suk was; the boy answered he was at the pavilion behind the temple, so they all went together to the rice fields, but could not find their preceptor; instead they saw a certain young monk sitting there. So all the monks went back together. The next day they arranged to come again, and this time Luang Pho Suk said to those monks: didn't you all come yesterday as well? Why did you not come in to see me then?

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An elderly monk was likewise walking on thudong pilgrimage. This monk possessed profound occult knowledge. Luang Pu Suk, seeing this elderly monk's bearing, became devoted in his heart, and asked to walk on thudong together with him. The elderly monk had no objection. When the elderly monk and the young monk (that is, Luang Pu Suk in those days) had walked on thudong until they reached a certain stream, the elderly monk pointed out to him a flock of birds flying in the sky, remarking: "Even the birds still have a leader." Luang Pu Suk followed the pointing hand and did indeed see the flock of birds flying, but when he looked back down, he could not find the elderly monk anywhere. He searched around, and when he looked straight ahead, he found the elderly monk standing at the edge of the stream, on the opposite bank. How could he have moved so swiftly — he must certainly possess very advanced occult power, Luang Pu Suk thought. Then the elderly monk called out and said: "If you wish to follow, you must have a bold and unyielding heart...!" Having said this, he walked on. As for Luang Pu Suk, not knowing how he could cross the stream in order to follow the elderly monk, he walked on tracing along the bank of the stream. After Luang Pu Suk had walked for a good while, he met a forest man poling a bamboo raft downstream with the current, and asked to borrow the raft to cross to the opposite bank. Luang Pu Suk continued walking alone for another good while, until it was nearly dusk, and so he pitched his shelter to rest for the night, practicing meditation and various ascetic exercises. That night was a very frightening one, for tigers came and paced around Luang Pu Suk's shelter the whole night. But deep in the night it grew even more frightening still, for a great tiger, one of enormous size, came roaring to chase the smaller tigers away from Luang Pu Suk's shelter. As for the great tiger — once it had roared the smaller tigers off, it continued pacing around and around Luang Pu Suk's shelter; at times it even rubbed its body against the shelter, causing great terror in the young monk named "Suk," who redoubled his meditative effort and did not sleep at all, and that tiger continued this behavior nearly the entire night. Only toward dawn, nearly light, did the great tiger finally disappear. Once it was light, Luang Pu Suk continued on, following after the elderly monk; having walked only a short way, he met the same tiger again; he hurried to walk away, and the tiger followed him, all the way until afternoon (that day Luang Pu Suk said he ate nothing at all, being entirely preoccupied with fear of the tiger), until at last he heard "village chickens" crowing loudly. Luang Pu Suk then turned and spoke to the tiger, saying: "We are nearly at the village now — will you still keep following?!" Upon hearing Luang Pu Suk's words, the great tiger turned aside and slipped away into the forest, vanishing from sight. When Luang Pu Suk, walking on thudong, reached the village, he saw the elderly monk sitting there waiting, with villagers sitting around him in conversation, and the elderly monk invited Luang Pu Suk to drink hot water together with him, laughing all the while...! Regarding this story, those who knew of it said that the "great tiger" was the elderly monk himself, Luang Pu Suk's teacher, while the "small tigers" were real tigers of nature. Each teacher has different ways of training and teaching disciples, none the same, including different methods of testing a disciple's "heart" (resolve). As for this particular episode, the record states that Luang Pu Suk never told anyone what he had learned from this teacher.

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[The narrator continues an earlier account:] ...unable to get home in time, he asked to spend just one night at the temple. Luang Pho Suk said he could not let them stay — they had to go back. "You lot are no-good people, all thieves," he said; he could not let them sleep there, they had to go back. The narrator replied that it would be dark along the way, so Luang Pho Suk told them that if they were going to go, they should first bathe in holy water and then hurry off. It turned out that on the way back, they reached home in Phonang Dam subdistrict, Sapphaya district, before the sun had even set, which astonished the narrator greatly; he also said that he had not felt tired at all along the way. This story shows that Luang Pho Suk was able to perceive the thoughts of others' hearts, showing that he possessed "chetopariyañāṇa" — the knowledge that enables one to read others' minds.

Luang Pho Suk goes to collect alms in Bangkok Mrs. Thip Sukthong told this on 5 May B.E. 2523 [1980 CE]. When Luang Pho Nuk, a Mon monk residing at Wat Palok or Champa Lok, Pathum Thani province (some say it is now called Wat Bang Sa Nithet Wiset Bamrung, but a check of the temple registry could not confirm this), traveled to visit Luang Pho Suk and stayed at Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao (the two had once gone on thudong together and were very close), and when Luang Pho Nuk told Luang Pho Suk he would return to his temple the next day, Luang Pho Suk instructed Mrs. Thip Sukthong: "Little one, get up and warm water for Khun Nuk in the morning." Then he said to Luang Pho Nuk: "Today I'll eat my morning meal a bit late — please wait for me a while; whoever brings offerings, don't eat yet." Luang Pho Suk's mother then asked, "How late?" Luang Pho Suk answered, not later than 9 o'clock. Luang Pho Suk took his alms bowl and went out before it was even properly light; a little after 8 o'clock he came back with his bowl, which was full of fruit such as durian and mangosteen. It was understood that Luang Pho Suk had gone all the way to collect alms in Bangkok. Luang Pho Nuk told Mrs. Thip that Luang Pho Suk had been traveling for 2 days already.

Luang Pho Suk parts the water to go look at the crocodiles in the pool in front of the temple Mr. Chalam Iamrot told this on 7 August, B.E. 2521 [1978 CE]. Mr. Chalam Iamrot, when ordained as a monk, used to regularly massage Luang Pho Suk. One day Luang Pho Suk invited the monk Chalam to go bathe with him in front of the temple; Luang Pho Suk said he wanted to go check whether the crocodiles that lived in the pool in front of the temple were still all there. He said there had originally been three of them together. The monk Chalam finished bathing and sat waiting; his lower and upper robes had already dried in the sun and he still had not seen Luang Pho come up from the water. He waited a full 2 hours, then went up to the dwelling and found Luang Pho already sitting there. The monk Chalam went and asked Luang Pho Suk which way he had come up. Luang Pho Plim said he had seen Luang Pho Suk come up from behind the temple, on the side of Khlong Makham Thao (the source of the Tha Chin River). When the monk Chalam went back to Luang Pho, he was told that only 2 crocodiles remained (he said one had disappeared). I asked about Luang Pho Suk's condition when he parted the water to look at the crocodiles that day; Mr. Chalam said Luang Pho Suk wore a monastic outer robe, and sewed cloth into a pouch, always bound with a cord around his waist. Inside the pouch he kept a beautifully carved bamboo clasp — a gift from the Lawa people. Inside the case there were no matches and no flint.

A district clerk is punished Mr. Net Phaeng Klin, now aged 86, of the house below Wat Phikun Ngam, Thammamun subdistrict, Mueang district, Chai Nat province, told this story on 5 March, B.E. 2522 [1979 CE].

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One day, Palat Samrit, district clerk of Wat Sing district, Chai Nat province, together with the officials of Wat Sing district, were required to travel to perform the water-of-allegiance ceremony (thue nam phiphat sattaya) in Chai Nat province. Travel in those days required using horses as transport, and the route they had to take passed by Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao. When all the officials were about to pass Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao, every one of them dismounted from their horses and walked leading their horses past the front of the temple, except Palat Samrit alone, who refused to dismount, considering that as district clerk he would not get down. It turned out that the officials who dismounted and led their horses past were able to go on and perform the royal ceremony of the water of allegiance, but Palat Samrit alone had to remain seated on his horse, which pranced and bucked forward and backward the entire time, so that he could not get down no matter what — the horse pranced from morning until afternoon. Only once the party performing the water-of-allegiance ceremony had returned from Chai Nat province could he finally travel back together with the group.

Luang Pu Suk learns the arts of invisibility, calling the wind, and calling rain According to the original record, this story was recounted by Mrs. Thip Sukthong on 5 May, B.E. 2523 [1980 CE], following the account of her husband, Mr. Yot Sukthong, a disciple of Luang Pu Suk (Luang Pho Suk himself once had an old notebook in which this was written), this Mr. Yot Sukthong being an exceedingly bold man — bold enough that he had once asked Krommaluang Chumphon directly for a sword. Regarding the story of Luang Pu Suk learning the arts of invisibility, calling the wind, and calling rain, Mrs. Thip Sukthong related that once Luang Pu Suk, walking further on thudong into a great forest with high mountains, came upon a certain teacher-monk of about 60 to 70 years' standing in the monkhood, and asked to learn from him. The teacher said, "Good things are rare; there's no one fit to receive them. With only 17 years standing, could you really manage it...?" Having said this, that teacher-monk leapt and vanished down into a chasm, the bottom of which was deep and pitch dark. Luang Pu Suk, resolute of heart, folded his arms across his chest, steadied his mind into single-pointed concentration, and then leapt down after him into the chasm. It turned out he landed standing on a stone step (presumably an old stairway that someone had built into the various ledges of the cave, having steps near the mouth of the chasm and steps at its bottom — and the step Luang Pu Suk found himself standing on was one at the very bottom of the chasm). It turned out the teacher agreed to teach his art to Luang Pu Suk, and so they studied together down in the chasm for 3 days and 3 nights, neither of them eating any food at all — using only water blessed in the alms bowl to sustain themselves! Regarding this story, the original recorder, Dr. Samnuan Palawatwichai, surmised that Luang Pu Suk must have told this story to Mr. Yot Sukthong, since both Mr. Yot and his wife Mrs. Thip were disciples who served closely by Luang Pu Suk's side, both of them — Mrs. Thip in particular being the regular caretaker of Luang Pu Suk's "mother" right up until Luang Pu Suk's mother passed away of old age. In this story the art learned is clearly identified: the art of invisibility, calling the wind, and calling rain. Generally speaking, matters concerning the teachers of Luang Pu Suk are known to very few, because he rarely spoke of them to anyone.

The teacher of Luang Pu Suk This story about the teacher of Luang Pu Suk was told by Luang Pho Choeng Thammathiro on 3 March, B.E. 2508 [1965 CE], and runs as follows: Once, while Luang Pu Suk of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao was walking alone on thudong deep in the forest, he encountered

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[Transcriber's note: the printed text on this page (page 206) duplicates, word for word and in full, the text already printed on page 203 (this batch's page_no 166) — this is genuinely how it appears in the scanned source, not a transcription error, so it is transcribed above exactly as printed and translated here in full to match.]

An elderly monk was likewise walking on thudong pilgrimage. This monk possessed profound occult knowledge. Luang Pu Suk, seeing this elderly monk's bearing, became devoted in his heart, and asked to walk on thudong together with him. The elderly monk had no objection. When the elderly monk and the young monk (that is, Luang Pu Suk in those days) had walked on thudong until they reached a certain stream, the elderly monk pointed out to him a flock of birds flying in the sky, remarking: "Even the birds still have a leader." Luang Pu Suk followed the pointing hand and did indeed see the flock of birds flying, but when he looked back down, he could not find the elderly monk anywhere. He searched around, and when he looked straight ahead, he found the elderly monk standing at the edge of the stream, on the opposite bank. How could he have moved so swiftly — he must certainly possess very advanced occult power, Luang Pu Suk thought. Then the elderly monk called out and said: "If you wish to follow, you must have a bold and unyielding heart...!" Having said this, he walked on. As for Luang Pu Suk, not knowing how he could cross the stream in order to follow the elderly monk, he walked on tracing along the bank of the stream. After Luang Pu Suk had walked for a good while, he met a forest man poling a bamboo raft downstream with the current, and asked to borrow the raft to cross to the opposite bank. Luang Pu Suk continued walking alone for another good while, until it was nearly dusk, and so he pitched his shelter to rest for the night, practicing meditation and various ascetic exercises. That night was a very frightening one, for tigers came and paced around Luang Pu Suk's shelter the whole night. But deep in the night it grew even more frightening still, for a great tiger, one of enormous size, came roaring to chase the smaller tigers away from Luang Pu Suk's shelter. As for the great tiger — once it had roared the smaller tigers off, it continued pacing around and around Luang Pu Suk's shelter; at times it even rubbed its body against the shelter, causing great terror in the young monk named "Suk," who redoubled his meditative effort and did not sleep at all, and that tiger continued this behavior nearly the entire night. Only toward dawn, nearly light, did the great tiger finally disappear. Once it was light, Luang Pu Suk continued on, following after the elderly monk; having walked only a short way, he met the same tiger again; he hurried to walk away, and the tiger followed him, all the way until afternoon (that day Luang Pu Suk said he ate nothing at all, being entirely preoccupied with fear of the tiger), until at last he heard "village chickens" crowing loudly. Luang Pu Suk then turned and spoke to the tiger, saying: "We are nearly at the village now — will you still keep following?!" Upon hearing Luang Pu Suk's words, the great tiger turned aside and slipped away into the forest, vanishing from sight. When Luang Pu Suk, walking on thudong, reached the village, he saw the elderly monk sitting there waiting, with villagers sitting around him in conversation, and the elderly monk invited Luang Pu Suk to drink hot water together with him, laughing all the while...! Regarding this story, those who knew of it said that the "great tiger" was the elderly monk himself, Luang Pu Suk's teacher, while the "small tigers" were real tigers of nature. Each teacher has different ways of training and teaching disciples, none the same, including different methods of testing a disciple's "heart" (resolve). As for this particular episode, the record states that Luang Pu Suk never told anyone what he had learned from this teacher.

The Jindamani Mantra

[A verse of about 12 lines in cursive handwriting — illegible]

Regarding the "Jindamani Mantra" of Luang Pu Sukh of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao: this is a mantra sacred in loving-kindness and popularity (metta mahaniyom), and rich in luck and fortune. It is the mantra Luang Pu Sukh taught to Mr. Chalaem Iamrot, who lived at Ban Tai Thammamun, Mueang District, Chai Nat Province, and who was ordained at Wat Thammamun with Luang Pu Sukh as his preceptor (upachaya), in the waxing moon of the 5th lunar month, B.E. 2462.

Mr. Chalaem Iamrot was one who personally saw and knew the details of the water-detonation exercises of Krom Luang Chumphon, witnessing them with his own eyes (at that time many monks and villagers stood watching the event).

Mr. Chalaem was one of those who kept watch, nursed, and attended to Luang Pu Sukh while he suffered illness from old age, and continued to attend him until the time of his passing.

At that time Mr. Chalaem said he had attended Luang Pu Sukh for a period of 1 month before the elder monk passed away.

When the original recorder, the physician Samnuan Palawatwichai, went to research the biography of Luang Pu Sukh together with Mr. Chalaem — who was a practitioner of traditional medicine — in B.E. 2501, Mr. Chalaem was by then already 80 years old.

It was learned that Mr. Chalaem had received the transmission of the "Jindamani Mantra." Seeing that it ought to be recorded, [the recorder] asked that it be written down.

Whoever recites and reveres this "Jindamani Mantra," calling to mind the virtue of the Triple Gem and remembering Luang Pu Sukh of Wat Pak Khlong Makham Thao and all the deities, that person's life will succeed in whatever is wished for, within the bounds of righteous conduct (dhamma).

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